[stand watie]

the OTHER way would have been a vast offensive by partisans & guerrillas. we rebels could have held the wilderness & mountain areas of the country essentially forever;sooner or later the damnyankees would have given up trying to occupy our lands.

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[agrandis]

the OTHER way would have been a vast offensive by partisans & guerrillas. we rebels could have held the wilderness & mountain areas of the country essentially forever;sooner or later the damnyankees would have given up trying to occupy our lands.

The more I learn of Robert E. Lee, the more I love him. He has to be one of the most noble men in all of history. I respect his tack after the war, and it made both moral and practical sense, but part of me has always disagreed with his rejection of guerilla warfare. He convinced a lot of Confederates to give up the idea.

Jesse James and a few stragglers who moved to Mexico just didn't a guerilla war make.