Reminds me of the carpetbagger on the train to Birmingham. In the same car was a sweet young belle and a former Confederate officer. The carpetbagger approached the belle and made what she took to be an obscene proposition to her. She got up in a huff, and approached the officer. “That Yankee offered me ten dollars if I would sleep with him!”, she declared. The officer gallantly responded by drawing his revolver and shooting the Yankee dead. He then holstered his weapon, and looked around the car, saying, “Let that be a lesson to any other carpetbagging Yankees who think they are going to come down here and double the price ah everything!”
I don’t see why so many of my fellow “Damned Yankees” have such a problem down here. There’s a nice statue of a confederate soldier in a park in downtown Pensacola. He’s part of the local history. While I’m pro-Union, I’m sure he served his side with honor, and he even went on to serve in Congress, according to the plaque. I guess nobody used Amendment 14, Section 3 against him. It’s not like the statue is going to run around biting people.
The way I look at the Civil War — that is, the War Between The States, more accurately — is, we were all Americans. We were just squared off against each other for a while over slavery and economic issues. I’m glad my side, the side two of my great-great-great uncles served, won, but still, we were all Americans. Peace to all of us.
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