Who cares. The south got there A$$ handed to them. Why they want to glorify a war they lost is beyond me.
Got their a$$es handed to them??????
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070 Disease, etc.: 250,152 Total 360,222
The Confederate strength, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000 Disease, etc.: 164,000 Total 258,000
So the SMALLER Confederate Army (1.25mm) caused more deaths on the LARGER Union army (2.75 mm men)and they were handed WHAT????????????????????????? You think like obama.
“Why they want to glorify a war they lost is beyond me.”
“They”? They is “us”, and includes you and me, and everyone in every state in the union. Every casualty was an American casualty. Every confederate soldier and every union soldier was an American.
It was OUR war - Our meaning all of America. I look at it this way, when the south was defeated, we ALL lost - because it marked the beginning of Federal usurpation of the 10th Amendment - which has continued unabated since that time.
Well, lots of people down here had ancestors who fought in that war, and had families decimated and property destroyed. Some of us have lived places where almost every historical marker ends with “...burned by Union troops on February 17, 1865.” And some of us realize that while you can’t divorce slavery from the causes of the Recent Unpleasantness, and while it was, ultimately, better for us that we lost? That war and its aftermath ultimately plunged a dagger into the heart of the federalist system as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, and it’s been on life support ever since, vital signs fading.
Not to mention, some of us are damn tired of being tarred with the brush of “racist” and “redneck” for being proud of where we’re from and the way our ancestors fought...and at least SOME of what they fought for.
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