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My maternal Great Great Grandfather served in Company G 8th Infantry Regiment,South Carolina,CSA.
My paternal Great Grandfather served in Company H 5th Infantry Regiment,Tennessee,CSA.
My Great Grandfather saw first hand Sherman's March to the Sea and the way he described it the Yankees were more like The Red Army entering East Germany during WWII than an average conquering force after simple victory.
Federal Big Government looting aka Reconstruction rubbed bitter salt in the horrendous wounds and was directly responsible for the delay of Black Civil Rights as my ancestors were told repeatedly by the jack booted Yankee thugs that their unjust misery was revenge for their going to war to preserve Negro Slavery.
It wasn't why THEY went to war,of course,but it WAS why the Union conquerors abused them and if the master keeps calling his honest slave a liar enough the poor devil will eventually lie to satisfy and shut up his tormentor.