[Heyworth]

It's amazing that today, so many misinformed and otherwise intellegent looking people will look you straight in the eye & try to tell you the war was fought over slavery when that absurd revisionist notion never even appeared in any history book published north or South until well after Bruce Canton started publishing his series of historical fiction books approximately 75 years after the war.

"The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true." - U.S. Grant, in his Memoirs, 1885.

[WhiskeyPapa]

It's amazing that today, so many misinformed and otherwise intellegent looking people will look you straight in the eye & try to tell you the war was fought over slavery when that absurd revisionist notion never even appeared in any history book published north or South until well after Bruce Canton started publishing his series of historical fiction books approximately 75 years after the war.

"The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true." - U.S. Grant, in his Memoirs, 1885.

Thanks for posting this. The neo-rebs will hold up Robert E. Lee as the perfect Christian gentleman and then tell any lie they like.

Walt