It’s mystifying how deeply personal this history is to you today, so that you take the occasion not to debate, but to call names, accuse others of being Democrats, and generally stink up the thread with pouting and denunciations.
You seem equally mystified by people who read about and discuss the CW in order to seek a more objective narrative about the many, many aspects of the conflict that require a re-examination of the propaganda from both sides—before, during, and after the war. That they do so dispassionately seems to really irk you, when what you seem to want is a bloody reenactment on this forum.
The proper outlets for your rage are the parallels between what was done then that split this constitutional republic, and what is being done now that is threatening to split this republic—not without bloodshed—and what we can learn from it to prevent even worse times than we are enduring at present.
Cool heads look at those dynamics with open minds to learn, and without rattling sabers at other freepers or spitting in their eyes, but debating with civility, sharing information or citations, and respecting the family ties and home states of others. Your continued denunciations of the south and everyone in it helps nothing and no-one.
He authored The Army Surgeons Manual(still in use) and he had to deal with the carnage your ancestors caused. And because I was born and raised in the northeastern NJ town of Kearny, named after it's most famous local son Union General Phil Kearny, that's why.
And my truck IS NOT with Southerners,I have a North Carolinian sister-in-law.
My problem is with Confederates.