During the time portrayed in the Hatfield and McCoy era, a lot of “loser” suffering simply as further punishment by installing hoards of Holders people to leadership positions and being overrun with Carpetbagger crooks from such as fine a honorable place as the north.
Regarding the depiction as War of Northern Aggression, there was damn few invasions of or bloody battles north of the Mason Dixon. Invasion by overwhelming (at least in numbers and technology)superior force is usually considered aggression.
Am an AMERICAN loving patriot and one who may not have liked the long-term outcome had the South prevailed, but only a fool does not recognize a great amount of undue suffering was put upon a significant portion of the Southern Americans, 99% of whom never owned a slave.
Well said.
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No offense to you personally, but to my great grandfather, who was gone from ‘61 to 65 and to his brother, who fell at Cold Harbor, undue hardship was felt all around.
The south statreted a fight they could not win. Superior numbers, industry, and technology usually win all wars. And, if the south had given up when it was clear they were not going to win, hundreds of thousands would have lived.
That is true in all wars. Then and now.