[Marxism] Joseph Weydemeyer; Engels supplied the North cannon through Weydemeyer ?

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lüko Willms > CB: Wasn't Sherman's march to the see the key, a splitting
move, 
> not an encirclement ? 
> I don't know if the Union got the idea _from_ Engels, 

  I'm quite sure that not. 

^^^^^
CB; Why are you quite sure ? Do you mean you never thought of the
possibility before ?

^^^

> but there it is in the article in March 1862 , 
> which is before Sherman's army actually carried it out. 

  Two people (or groups of people) arriving at the same result, based on 
knowledge of the task. 

^^^^
CB: Maybe. On the other hand, maybe the Union high command considered Marx
and Engels analysis in reaching their decision. Evidently, at first the
Union high command had and opposite plan of surrounding the Confederacy.
Why the change ? It would be pretty difficult for you to be certain that the
Marx Engels article did not influence the decision to change. Germans were
known for developed military knowledge at the time. Here comes this analysis
from  
Germans. Why not study it. You might win because of it. It's a practical
thing.

Weydemeyer was a _Major_ General.  That' one rank below Grant. That's
respect for German military knowledge. 

^^^^

  During the German-French war of 1870/71, Engels wrote a correspondence 
for the London daily "Pall Mall Gazette" where he did the same: 
predicting what the next move of the Prussian army would be.   

> Also, didn't Marx and Engels write directly to Lincoln ? 

  No, but Marx got the General Council of the International Workingmen's 
Association (is that the english name?) to issue an address to Lincoln, 
congratulating for his reelection. Marx, of course, had written the 
document (end of November 1864). 

^^^^^^
CB: Correct. And the Marx-Engels archivists list that address as written _by
Marx_.  Certainly we know Marx did a lot of the writing of International
documents.

^^^^^

  In May 1865 the General Council also sent an address to US-president
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln after his murder. 

^^^
CB: Also listed as written by Marx by the archivists. 

And another just congratualating the American people on something

^^^^^^^

  As Nestor Gorojevsky already noted, these are documents worth while to 
study in light of our recent discussion about Evo Morales' election to 
the president of Bolivia. 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
--------------------------------



________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism