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To: jmacusa

***...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.

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse/appomattox-court-house-history/surrender.html

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.


31 posted on 06/23/2016 6:58:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The f**king war is over for Christ sake and you’re side lost. Get over it!


42 posted on 06/24/2016 1:28:33 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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