David T. Dixon

Biographer, Owner of B-List History:
Obscure Characters, Compelling Stories

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The word is out on the Far Left.

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@AstorAaron Wow congratulations!!!

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@woodaa_ Yes Willich was the first to employ it in the CW. Others began adopting it but Union Major General George Thomas, a stickler for tactics by the book, discontinued its use despite its success at Liberty Gap and Chickamauga

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@nika_not_home Love this

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@Michaeljhandy @Permanentkritik Clever

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@radhistoryguy Very true

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@Richard_Labit @No4you30 @AnonymousLeftie Willich biographer here. Other communists served in the Civil War. Weydemeyer for one but many others. If you count all socialists and not just communists it was a great number

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@Uh0hSpagetti0s6 @Frasier67Blank @KnowingBetterYT Wow that was a weird take. Never came across vegetarian menus in my research on Willich but to be fair there were a few such characters out there in the general radical populace

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@luistr640poli @MorganW93388777 @fedtanyl Yep

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@rk__upadhya This is a great source for first hand accounts and I used it extensively in my biography of Willich

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@hecubian_devil Agree. Radicals like Willich were disappointed that Fremont was not elected. Lincoln was a compromise candidate to be sure, but W and his colleagues got behind him to defeat the slave powers as that was their ultimate goal

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@Don___Cheeto00 @Bandit161_ @OOCcommunism True dat

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@Sinister_Sophia @ChrisMu24469747 Hey thanks for the plug. Writing the book was a labor of love.

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@AstorAaron I dare you to use the word "athwart" in your next book or in idle conversation with your students

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@AstorAaron @nexta_tv That is why I never wanted Yakutsk when playing Risk.

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THE FIGHT TO FIGHT
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THE FIGHT TO FIGHT

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@billymeltdown Willich's political views changed when he emigrated to America in 1853. He did not believe communism would work in the US but advocated for a socialist workers republic. See Daniel De Leon fifty years later.

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@DouglasJim36529 @anarchopac True dat

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@Matty_Ixnay Au contraire. AW and JW were comrades in the Prussian Seventh Artillery and left the service due to their radical views but JW became Marx's American press agent while AW became Karl's rival for leadership of the Communist League and a sworn enemy.