I have the three volumes but have never tried it. I also have Bruce Catton’s books - there’s a name not to be forgotten. I prefer the older historians on the cw because the modern “historians” make me puke.
Worth while read...get started. ;>)
In Vol. III of the Random House nine volume set, Foote providez direct quotations of rabid northerners intent to annihilate the south.
A Massachusetts Colonel wrote, “...Do we fight to avenge...insult? No! The thing we seek is permanent dominion. And what instance is there of permanent dominion without changing, revolutionizing, absorbing, the institutions, life and manners of the conquered peoples?...
They think we mean to take their Slaves. Bah! We must take their ports, their mines, their water power, the very soil they plough, and develope them by the hands of our artisan armies...
We are to be a regenerating, colonizing power, or we are to be whipped. Schoolmasters, with howitzers, must instruct our Southern brethren that they are a set of damned fools in everything that relates to...modern civilization...This army must not come back. Settlement, migration must put the seal on battle, or we gain nothing.”
Elisions are those of the author, not mine.
I bought a new, awards winning biography of Andrew Jackson. I was amazed that the biography was written from the standpoint of Jackson’s promotion of white supremacy. That theme is majored in all college “United States” history classes. They got rid of the “American” in that, for obvious reasons.