[Physicist]

the gentlemanly policies and behavior of the Confederate forces.

My great-great uncle starved to death shortly after his liberation from Salisbury prison in North Carolina. But it was a gentlemanly starvation.

[Colt .45]

Kinda like the tender mercies shown the Confederate POW's at Elmira Prison in New York?! And you all should go back and study the Constitutional debates to understand what all of us lost when legions of "Honest Abe" won in 1865. The South fought for the freedom of a State's Right of self-determination. Slavery was dying in the Southland, but when the Northern Abolitionists started pushing Northern Congressmen to abolish it by law, the South fought back because of economics! Had the North minded their own business, the issue (slavery) would've been resolved.

Lincoln didn't care for the blacks anyway, he even stated so in his election debates. His Emancipation Proclamation was nothing more than a political ploy aimed at engendering support for his war. By 1863 the Northern populace was heartily sick of sending off their sons to die by the thousands on the field of battle. As for the rolling and mugging of the Constitution, Lincoln was on par with Clinton. Truth hurts.