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[quote user="Gibson Brown"]I would like to add...that the south really won, and it had zero to do with slavery....[/quote] You're leaving out all the best ones: Lincoln and Grant owned slaves, Davis and Lee didn't; Grant spent much of the war in a drunken stupor; Jackson obsessively...
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[quote user="Liniel Gregory"]Also, there are numbers floating around that about 65,000 free blacks at that time joined the Confederate army.[/quote] Oh please let's not repeat that absurd myth, Linnie. A fellow told me that one time and I asked him why there is not a single shred of evidence...
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[quote user="Sandi Saunders"] If you seriously think not investigating and adjudicating the issue will allow the consensus and healing that airing the truth would allow, well, I think you just answered your own question. 150 years from now, this will still be a discussion topic, for us and...
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[quote user="Liniel Gregory"]Also, for the record, during the War of Northern Agression, [/quote] I would love to debate the Southern rebellion with you, Linie. David Hunter was a jackass who was better at burning buildings than conducting troops in combat. Phil Sheridan (a superb combat general...
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[quote user="Clonnie Yearout"] I know it calls for speculation, and we can't really know the mindset of the secessionists, but do you think it's reasonable to assume that they felt they had the right to leave the Union? Do you think that in the course of human events the southern states...
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[quote user="Gibson Brown"]The winners write the history books as a rule, and slanting it in their favor is to be expected. You see through that. Do you agree that 'bankers' played a major role in starting the Civil War, wanting to stamp out 'State Banks' in favor of 'Federal...
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