"which is known to anyone who has studied the era."
You've made a number of erroneous, broad sweeping statements which lead me to believe that you really don't have a clue, and are googling your @ss off just to keep up. Correct me if I'm wrong.
What would I have to Google? I haven't said anything not known to anyone who has studied history. Now if it were some fine detail or date I might do so and legitimately earn your insult. But for a "broad sweeping statement" LoL. If I were that much an idiot how would I have wound up on Free Republic?
My interest in the Civil War predates your birth quite likely and I was raised in the anti-Black pro-Slaver atomsphere which dominated the South.