***Yeah, poor dumb Southerners who went to war for slave owning paltroons. ***
At least they went and served when drafted, Meanwhile In New York the citizens took up arms in the anti-draft riots to keep from going to fight Southerners.
So the Northern Army had to start using the immigrants from Ireland and Europe to take up the slack.
***...slave owning paltroons. ****
Those “slave owning Poltroons” received an honorable surrender as seen by this correspondence between LEE and Grant. The Confederate officers were still held in high esteem in the North.
Meanwhile TWENTY UNIONIST ABOLITIONISTS each forked over $5000 in gold coin to pay for the bond of Jefferson Davis as they felt he could not get a “fair” trial. Horace Greeley and Cornelius Vanderbilt being the first two to give.
That is enough now. My grandfathers went to war to repel Northern invaders. If there had been a few less hotheads like you in government at the time, slavery would have been ended without a million and a half casualties of war. All of the other Western Civilization nations ended slavery without civil war.
I have not had a Confederate flag or any CSA artifacts since I was 14 years old in the sixties, but I will stand for the right to show the flag in the cemeteries where Confederate War dead are buried. Your invade and conquer mentality is not the way of a civilized Republican.