[Colonel Kangaroo]

It was the Slave Empire that destroyed the South to protect their degenerate human bondgage based society.

And what you call "submission to Washington" was a much better prospect than submission to Richmond and Slavery Inc.

"We can never live in a Southern Confederacy, and be made hewers of wood and drawers of water for a set of aristocrats"— William Brownlow, Knoxville Whig

[Irontank]

And what you call "submission to Washington" was a much better prospect than submission to Richmond and Slavery Inc.

Had the Southern states agreed to stay in the Union...or had they surrendered in the first two years of the war...it would have been submission to Washington and Slavery...at least until slavery died out...as it was in the process of doing

Those, including Lincoln, who worked against the Constitutional decentralized Republic in favor of an unconstitutional powerful national government were more than happy to protect slavery in the South so long as the South would submit

[ohioman]

There was a split in my family as I had relatives from the Sevier County area that fought for the North and some that fought for the South. I am equally proud of them. Would you say the same if that happened in your family?