“the only way i will allow a yankee to live. . . .”
James Montgomery-Ryan is a young man with a dream, and it’s on a schedule:


I wonder if Charles Goodson knows about this potential recruit for his New Confederate Army.
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James Montgomery-Ryan is a young man with a dream, and it’s on a schedule:
I wonder if Charles Goodson knows about this potential recruit for his New Confederate Army.
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I guess when he and Goodson have polished off the Yankees, they can take up the cause of the White Russians. Perhaps that’s so important, they should take it up first.
For what it’s worth, Goodson tries to make clear that he’s not about violent uprising. For all his vivid imagination, Goodson doesn’t seems to have homicidal fantasies.
Mr. Montgomery-Ryan is pathetically deluded if he believes that Native Americans would have fared any better if the Confederacy had prevailed. Who does he think dominated the federal government and dictated policy towards Native Americans during the Antebellum Era? Slave state Democrats and their northern allies. He really better study the history of the First and Second Seminole Wars, especially the latter,described by the Florida Dept of State website as “The Second Seminole War (1835-1842), usually referred to as the Seminole War proper, was the fiercest war waged by the U.S. government against American Indians. The United States spent more than $20 million fighting the Seminoles. The war left more than 1,500 soldiers and uncounted American civilians dead. And the obvious duplicity of the U.S. government’s tactics marred Indian-white relations throughout the country for future generations.” http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/seminole/wars.cfm The Second Seminole War resulted from some Seminole’s refusal to recognize the treaty ending the first war and to submit to relocation in Oklahoma. The Second Seminole War began during Andrew Jackson’s administration. Jackson also defied U.S. Supreme Court decision in his forcible removal of Native American tribes from the Southeastern US. The Trail of Tears wasn’t some Northern/Yankee plot (the northern whites were no better, though).
The Confederates were following a very traditional pattern in American history, going back to pre-Revolutionary War times. The weaker white combatant group would put out feelers to Native Americans to get needed help. If they prevailed, they promptly ignored any and all promises made and turned on their erstwhile allies.
Mr. Montgomery-Ryan has larger concerns than a lack of understanding about U.S. policy toward indigenous peoples in the 19th century.