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To: exmarine
Ditto...I read somewhere that Longstreet of Civil War fame wished the slaves had been freed...and that Fort Sumpter had still been fired upon!(A state's rights issue!) I can't remember the source...someone can set me right if he never said it!
333 posted on 11/13/2003 11:27:44 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
Ditto...I read somewhere that Longstreet of Civil War fame wished the slaves had been freed...and that Fort Sumpter had still been fired upon!(A state's rights issue!) I can't remember the source...someone can set me right if he never said it!

Yes, most in the south did not fight for slavery as the idiot liberals at the NAACP would have us believe. They fought for their States, to defend their homes against an INVADER, for each other, and for their sense of duty and honor.

344 posted on 11/13/2003 11:32:46 AM PST by exmarine (sic semper tyrannis)
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