[Sherman Logan]

Thanks. I have just been informed that the document may indeed be fake, in which case I offer my sincere apologies to the forum.

I think it does a pretty good job of sounding like a document of the time, or at least a good deal better than most lame attempts to “cite” Jefferson or Lincoln.

If I got fooled on this, it’s a classic example of believing something that you want to believe because it lines up so well with your worldview. Which is a part of human nature that people of all ideological persuasions are prone to.

I’ve read perhaps several hundred books on the War, and probably should have been more skeptical that I hadn’t read or heard of this before.

In my defense, the website from which I got it looked pretty legit.

http://corematerials.homestead.com/

[0.E.O]

Thanks. I have just been informed that the document may indeed be fake, in which case I offer my sincere apologies to the forum.

You have just outlined the major difference between the Unionists and the Lost Causers on this forum. We disclose and repudiate myths. They cling to them with white knuckles as if their entire cause depended on them. Which, frequently, it does.