The Battle of Gettysburg was the greatest clash of arms on American soil, in American History. On the first day alone, July 1, 1863, Union forces lost 9,000 casualties; the Confederates lost 6,000 casualties, in one day, in the first day of battle. The Union forces were led by Maj. General George Meade, a steady, unimaginative,    and uninspiring general. He commanded one of the most resilient armies in history, the Army of the Potomac. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was commanded by one of the great generals in American arms, the hero of the Mexican-American War, General Robert E. Lee. It was an army fresh from the greatest feat of arms on American soil, the American Cannae, Chancellorsville, in which Lee had subdivided his inferior force into three parts and defeated the vast army of the North. General Lee, flushed with victory, had invaded the North, into Pennsylvania, on his way to Philadelphia or New York City; where there was a large pro-Southern community of Irish

 Below is a picture of a runaway black hole, consuming everyone in its path. That Black Hole is irrational , nay unscientific, to the extreme, yet there it is, existing. This Blog is irrational to the extreme, yet here it is.   This Blogger received an email a few weeks ago; in which, the writer  wanted to know if he could catalog his nutty beliefs in one Blog, before his demise. (who knows what she knows?).   Anything for a lady; but not in one Blog.   So we begin a series of Blogs on odd conclusions by Gerry Maxey.   AMERICA   and the ALMIGHTY The hand of God weighs heavy on the land; seen but not believed. Blame that on slavery and genocide -   America seems to be    a Divine experiment by a strange, and demanding God. On one hand, He goes Zeus on the Republic, by divinely intervening to insure the survival of the Republic; as in the cases of the DIVINE FOG; which saved Washington’s Continental Army, by masking its retreat across the East River from infamous  annihilat ion; by placi

Harriet   Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN…when she met President Lincoln at the White House, her son   later reported that Lincoln said: "so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. ”   As this Blog is being written the Liberal cognoscente has grudgingly conceded that perhaps 40% of American citizenry is primed for Civil War .   As America totters on the brink of THE TROUBLES, LA VIOLENCIA, THE TERROR, all Americans should ask the   question VITO CORLEONE did in THE GODFATHER, when he tried to make peace among the warring Mafia gangs, after blood had been spilt: " “How did it come to this?”   Liberals, between heady binges of triumphalism, have a ready answer; the rightwing nutjobs did not watch enough of MSNBC.   “The right has spent decades telling people not to believe anyone but them. And now half the country simply can't accept the reality that Trump lost. “The question of whether anyone can run a democrac