Gary Ayres Fire Eater! Guest Writer Joseph Weydemeyer http://www.fireeater.org/HTML/WRITERS/Guest_Writers/Ayres_Gary/weydemeyer.ht m 21 November 2005
"Of course, Weydemeyer didn't take a step without the approval of Marx or Engels, so we know the support Lincoln received was from all these fellows. Weydemeyer served in the Union Army as an engineer and artillery officer and was in constant contact with his German Comrades. They discussed American politics and the war and how to effectively win the war. In letters from Engels to Weydemeyer, Engels spoke of Sherman's brilliance, and that against Sherman the South was crude in its ideas and war strategy. Not only did their correspondence back and forth concern tactics. though, but Frederich Engels was supplying Lincoln's army with cannons via Weydemeyer." <<<<<>>>>>
charles, you don't believe above, do you... Mh
^^^^^ CB: Because this guy is right wing or something , who thinks he is "exposing" the North as "communist" , by "exposing" Engels and Marx's support for the North ?
Well,I guess I should have put a question mark by the sending of cannon. Isn't the only questionable and new part the supplying of cannon ? The rest I have read before.
My understanding is that the plan that Engels wrote about ( in a long article which is in the Collected Works) a while before Sherman's actual march, was a plan for something like Sherman's march, to cut the Southern main supply route off. This was the crtiical strategic act for the North to win, and Engels the great military scientist had pronounced it in theory before Sherman's practice.
I guess that notion that Weydemeyer didn't do anything without Marx and Engels' approval is exaggerated, but he was something of a protégé of theirs ,no ? Marx and Engels functioned as something of an thinktank for Lincoln, writng to him directly.
This is the first I heard of actually supplying cannon. I thought it more plausible because Engels had served in the artillery corps during the 1848 German revolutionary struggles.