True or not, nobody should take as gospel anything from a blog.
Amen. If it’s not double and triple checked, it’s dubious.
I just got sent, today, that great series of steps of human progression attributed to “1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh.” I agree with the sentiment of freedom to slavery etc, but I’ve seen that deal debunked over and over forever, but it still gets resurrected, like dozens of bogus quotes “by” Hitler, Jefferson, etc.
It gets harder and harder to verify anything in the internet era where bogus but realistic-appearing websites proliferate. And it’s not just an academic exercise, it has real-world consequences, because millions of “low information voters” take as gospel what they see on MSM television, and God helps us, the internet.
I’m not taking anything as gospel from a blog.
It is however and undisputed fact that tens of thousands (or perhaps as many as 250,000) of civilians died as a result of the US Civil War