I admire Stonewall Jackson for imparting literacy and the teaching of Scripture to slaves in Sunday school - in secret. Jackson was both a product of his time and yet ahead of his time.
But still, I don’t share any Confederate sympathies. Doesn’t mean the “Unionists” were all angels. But their cause was righteous. And I believe it was in the sight of Almighty God.
Jackson ran a Sunday School for slaves where they learned scripture and nothing else. Far from being done in secret, Sunday Schools for slaves was common throughout the South and Jackson's school had the full knowledge and support of the church. Jackson did not teach slaves or freed blacks how to read. Jackson would never have done that to another man's property behind their back. His sense of right and wrong would not have permitted it.
You should read up on Nathan Bedford Forrest sometime. Among other things he did, he offered freedom to 25 of his own slaves if they would serve with him. At one point in which he thought he might get killed in battle, he filled out 24 manumission papers and signed them. In case he died, he still wanted his promise of freedom to them kept.
From what I have read, he used them as armed cavalry.
Doesn’t mean the “Unionists” were all angels. But their cause was righteous. And I believe it was in the sight of Almighty God.
God tends to favor the side that has four times the population and is far more Industrially based. Apparently he favored the Germans in the 1930s for some reason.
I don't agree that their cause was righteous. I used to believe that before I learned more facts about what actually happened. Their cause was about the worst cause of which you can imagine. Slapping subjugation on another people for money.
The Civil War was about the money stream coming from European trade. If it were about slavery, Lincoln would not have offered to protect slavery permanently.