According to the popular myth, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee handed U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant his sword at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, little did both men realize that Lee’s guys might be flying Blackhawks into the Loop in Chicago in 2025.
It is quite an irony to see former Confederate States Army units deployed to blue cities. I don't know what kind of sense of humor Robert E. Lee had though this historian suggests it was substantial; perhaps his ghost is laughing about it somewhere.
Were I someone who thought that there was a Civil War coming imminently, I probably wouldn't be playing games with military pay like some people are doing. I'm not suggesting that the military's loyalty is for sale, which presumably it is not. However, it's hard not to notice when one side is going to great lengths to find ways to pay you and the other side is considering law suits to stop you getting paid after all. It's hard to ignore your children going hungry, after all -- the troops will get fed even during a shut down, but their families need to buy groceries.
Trump seems to be moving to pay ICE and DHS agents during the shutdown too, and he's been treating them as important elements in what amounts to a domestic army. I'd think about that if I thought I were facing an imminent war, too. There are some old Roman stories about the loyalty of the Legions that are relevant.
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