My original question to you was to show me some examples of that on this forum (goof balls like stand watie excluded) and you said you could not recall any. Now you say the opposite?
If your condemnation is against the popular (leftist) press or Hollywood stereotypes, take it up with them. Nether points of view are represented or respected here.
My only reason to participate in these Civil War threads is to refute the totally distorted history engaged in by seminar posters who have an abundance of "regional pride" and very little actual knowledge of the history they claim to be intimate with via genetic heritage. Add to that trolls representing various radical neo secessionist and white supremest factions who infiltrate this forum from time to time masquerading as "Southern Patriots" and it can sometimes get busy.
I'd add, as a whiskey, I like Bourbon straight, sting and all. And I like my history the same way. There is no need to sugar coat anything for me. The bite of human foibles and flaws makes it all the more interesting and important. It's only about what happened.
so keep your self-righteous FOOLISHNESS to yourself. you'll LOOK smarter.
free dixie,sw
I am not suggesting that there is a need to sugarcoat anything. My point goes only to the idea that the fact that someone in another State had a different point of view on an historic issue than you have, is not a "flaw or foible." A tactical mistake in a battle, would be a flaw or foible. Inconsistency can be a flaw or foible--provided you understand the context of what is involved. But one's personal opinion on an historic issue is not such.
William Flax