[Mr. Silverback]

Most southerners who faught, did so in defense of his native state, and had no care about slavery, because they were busting their asses just to feed their families.

And that's why Sherman was a hero, because he not only did what it took to stop the waste of those Southern boys' lives, he struck at the people who started the Secession fever for their own benefit: The plantation crowd.

Some folks seem to conveniantly forget that just as many yankees owned slaves in that era. There is no "some folks" who believe that. I have yet to meet a Northerner who doesn't know that a few Northern states allowed slavery. Teaching that fact is absolutely necessary to teaching the Emancipation Proclamation.

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I have yet to meet a Northerner who doesn't know that a few Northern states allowed slavery. Teaching that fact is absolutely necessary to teaching the Emancipation Proclamation.

You haven't met many Northerner's have you. And far too many Southerner's don't know this either. My son's fifth grade teacher (he's 31 now) marked his paper on Sojourner Truth wrong about the fact that she was a slave in New York. Sad, so sad. I was more than happy to correct her.

[stand watie]

sherman deserved nothing more than HANGING for the TENS OF THOUSANDS of war crimes committed by the troops under HIS command, just as GEN Yamashita was hanged at the end of WW2 for the war crimes committed by the Japanese troops under HIS command.

the longstanding rule of all military forces is "an officer is RESPONSIBLE for everything that his subordinates do or fail to do" of those under his command.

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