[Nikas777]

The fact the Southern people split their allegiance between north and south (the north had regiments from all southern states but one) proves your statement is false. Let alone all the black peasants that left to go north and fight the south.

So I don't buy your revisionist history as the civil war being a peasant revolt. But I do appreciate your view point and it is a valid view you provided.

[stand watie]

inasmuch as between 100,ooo- 150,ooo free blacks VOLUNTEERED to fight for dixie FREEDOM, your view is (at least in my opinion & in that of many southern historians) is, in just one word, false.

furthermore, MANY northerners (including a whole regiment from NJ) and "out of country nationals" came to fight for dixie freedom, as they too knew what the war was REALLY about = throwing off the yoke of the northern ELITES from the necks of the common people.

to paraphrase an old grad school prof of mine: NOTHING in history is simple, except to simpletons.

also, sorry but REVISIONIST historiography came out of the northeastern "poison ivy league screwls" - whatever else we southrons are, it is NOT "revisionist".

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[stand watie]

btw, you should (if you have not done so already) read:

BLACKS IN BLUE & GRAY by Dr Hubert C. Blackerby (late of Tuskegee University's department of history)

&

CROSS BORDER WARRIOR (Canadians in US service & Americans in Canadian service)

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