[cowboyway]

Yes, the Oh so brave confederates murdered the white officers of the black regiments.

It was a damn war, you dumb knobhead. You're sounding like Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha calling our soldiers in Iraq murderers.

I was taught that it was the southern officers that "silenced" the first black cadets

Well, I doubt that a yankee school would teach otherwise.

the blacks needed a white advocate close by their side

Yankees were extra cruel to blacks caught fighting for the Stars and Bars.

Humans we all are, no?

Hmmmmmmm........let me get back to ya.........

[Donald Meaker]

West Point is not a yankee school. It is a National School.

Jeff Davis, Lee, Jackson, Pemberton, Grant, Winfield Scott, Thomas, Sherman, Beauregard, Johnston (both of them), Sheridan, and J.E.B Stuart all attended.

At that time they taught tactics, mathematics, and engineering very well. Alas, at that time they didn't teach political science, law or loyalty to the Nation all that well.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Yes, the Oh so brave confederates murdered the white officers of the black regiments. It was a damn war

War is rough. A fact the 19th century crybaby Confederates forgot during Shermans march and Reconstruction.