[DixieOklahoma]

"300,000 yankees learned that"

I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do, I hates the Declaration of Independence, too! I hates the "Glorious Union" -- 'tis dripping with our blood, And I hates their striped banner, and I fit it all I could.

I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about, Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout. I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow, But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'!

Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust! We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us. They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot, But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more, But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure! I do not want no pardon for what I was and am, And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!

ahh you gotta love the southern songs of the civil war.

full song at http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3208/rebel.htm

[Morgan's Raider]

There's a monument in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Lebanon, TN which reads:

THE CONFEDERACY WITHOUT AN ARMY, NAVY, OR GOVERNMENT, 600,000 VOLUNTEERS SUSTAINED THE ASSAULT OF 2,778,304 MEN, SUPPORTED BY THE STRONGEST GEVERNMENT IN THE WORLD FOR FOUR YEARS. ITS DESTRUCTION RENDERED NECESSARY A PUBLIC DEBT OF $2,708.393,885, THE SACRIFICE OF 349,944 LIVES AND OF 1,366,443 PRICSONERS.

(Note: bad comma splices are as they appear in my source)

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I was looking for the lyrics of this song when I saw your post.

I have them at work and couldn't put my finger on them at home.

You done good.

[M. Espinola]

Are you forgetting who won the Civil War?