[Happy Rain]

I had two great grandfathers (one from Pop’s side and one from Mom's) who fought the Yankee invaders and both families knew and handed down the fact that they fought for Tennessee and South Carolina respectively—in other words for their homes and nothing else—with evil war criminals like Sherman and Sheridan raping,looting,murdering and burning their way across the South it turns out they were right about WHY they fought.
Slavery was a non-issue to the vast majority of those Southerners who actually fought the war.THEIR views are the only ones that actually matter and their heroism and exceptional ability to last as long as they did against overwhelming numbers and material represents the greatest military prowess since the 300 Spartans.
We proud descendants of Confederate heroes let liberal Yankee academics and politically motivated revisionists play with the superfluous nuances over the origons of the war—The WAR itself is all that counted and those who fought it.

[stansblugrassgrl]

I think you said it perfectly. My family - Georgia and Texas. The wounds are deep. The south has a long memory. Yankees don’t seem to understand that.

Today’s civil war is being fought on cultural and ideological lines rather then the Mason/Dixon line. Also, between the states and the invasive Federal government. We are in the early stages of the war. Maybe we can back the enemy down, but at this point, I kind of doubt it. It’ll probably get worse before it will get better. States rights all over again!

[Lees Swrd]

The wealthy elite of nearby Washington, including congressmen and their families, expecting an easy Union victory, had come to picnic and watch the battle. When the Union army was driven back in a running disorder, the roads back to Washington were blocked by panicked civilians attempting to flee in their carriages.
If they had only pressed on to Washington that day the War would have ended. I am a proud descendant of Confederate heroes. I love talking to people from up yonder that are moving here in droves ask them what they are running from and most will tell you the same thing look at a lot of the cities look like bombed out war zones makes me think did we realy lose.