Today is Confederate Memorial Day in a couple of states below the Mason-Dixon line - as Ulysses S Grant wrote, "... that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."
Little Grey Bungalow
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ReplyDeleteI'm constantly amazed at the number of people who deny the American Civil War was about slavery. Alexander Stephens - their only vice president - declared loud and strong, that they were doing exactly that.
ReplyDeleteBut then, I'm also amazed at the number of southerners who have *no* idea who Alexander Stephens was! Yeesh.
History is in the past, time to let it go. I once cleared a large section of people at a Civil War Re-enactment (family got hand made shirts ONLY if they were on the Northern side). A lady sat next to me and said "The North cheated" Me -"What?"
ReplyDelete"They cheated by hiring mercenaries to kill our boys"
As a New Englander for generations I could not stop my mouth "Well good for us, you still lost". BOOM! 20 people moved. My dad came over to see what was up and I told me I was a proud Yankee. Let's just say i went to the mall instead of the ball that night.
Amazing how, in the teeth of historical evidence, people cling to the stories their families tell.
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