[Ultra Sonic 007]

So every southerner was a pro slavery bigot willing to die to keep another in chains.

I direct you to post 46. Kindly don't put words in my mouth.

I guess the North "won" but the "USA" lost

You think a Civil War is something to be won? Of course America lost; we lost 600,000 soldiers. Distrust between the North and South percolated for years afterward. The death of Abraham Lincoln, the incompetence of Andrew Johnson, and the corruption that crept into the federal government under Ulysses S. Grant's nose ruined Reconstruction as a concept, a program, and in the eyes of the public. All over a scenario that could have been peaceably settled had things been done differently in the antebellum years. But they had not been. The blow up of tensions in the Civil War was years in the making. To remove one facet of the war's origin is an impossibility, given how many decades back the roots of those facets stretch.

With friends like you who needs enemies.

???

All I ask is for no historical revisionism, please. Is that too much to ask?

[central_va]

All I ask is for no historical revisionism, please. Is that too much to ask?

What revisionism?

If it was about slavery, then the Southerners were fighting for slavery right? Making all of them evil bigots. The Yankees were fighting against slavery right? Making all of them hero's. You can't clap with one hand?

Let's make sure I have been properly trained: For the South, it wasn't about stopping a federal invasion or states rights, it was all about slavery. You said so. I have been schooled now. Thank you. You really straightened me out.

[central_va]

Of course America lost; we lost 600,000 soldiers

More than soldiers died, important ideas died also. The concept of a dispersed government, close to the people as possible.

[manc]

not too mention the rapes, murders, non voting for whites ion LA for 10 years under the so called reconstruction,etc etc etc. it was never a win for the north but a lose lose for both. we down here lost at least one generation and some families totally wiped out, land taken ,/stolen etc etc. people killed for not respecting Lincolns death, people killed because they flew the southern battle flag which I might add still bleeding goes on with these liberals