Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
RULES
No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
Follow all Lemmy.world rules
The red-pants uniform was that of the French Zouaves, a uniform which was widely imitated during the Civil War due to the fighting reputation of the Zouaves.
When that jackass John Bell Hood was retreating back into Alabama from his invasion of Tennessee there was much confusion because the best uniforms in his army were looted from Union dead. The only thing colored red was their bare footprints in the snow and ice.