[stand watie]

nope. it is FACTUAL.

sorry, but that is just true. i've on SEVERAL OCCASIONS asked some of your group to tell me ANYTHING that the damnyankees did that wasn't smart/honest/perfect. not a single person responded with anything except more (ad hominum) attacks.

therefore i must assume that they have ZILCH except LIES & INVECTIVE to offer this forum.

free dixie,sw

[Heyworth]

i've on SEVERAL OCCASIONS asked some of your group to tell me ANYTHING that the damnyankees did that wasn't smart/honest/perfect

I'll give you one: Rutherford B. Hayes accepting the 1876 Compromise in order to get himself the presidency. Here's another: failing to find a decent general to lead the US troops until they got to Grant (by process of elimination). Hell, I could go on all day about the imcompetence of the Union, about the excesses and mistakes.

Now it's your turn. Name something the south did that wasn't perfect. You've already defended Lawrence, I'm not sure there's much of anyplace for you to go after that one.

[Chickamauga]

asked some of your group to tell me ANYTHING that the damnyankees did that wasn't smart/honest/perfect.

Well, they didn't hang Jeff Davis for a traitor or David E. Twiggs as a thief and traitor.

[capitan_refugio]

I do not presume to be part of a "group." So what you may have asked others doesn't concern me. I'll make my case, and you'll make your case. I think that's perfectly reasonable. I don't attempt to make your case for you - I wouldn't even know how to begin.

"Factual" information, unsubstantiated, amounts to nothing more than personal opinion. You obviously have the educational background to make a reasoned, referenced, and substantiated argument. So why not take that course, rather than hurl invective-laden broadsides? It simply cheapens the discussion. (I know, as I fall into that trap as much as anyone on these threads.)