[LS]

It's "dissent," but your anecdotal evidence is NOT supported by the study of Bensel. And name calling him a "Yankee" won't exactly work. I challenge you to prove any part of his massive study wrong. The Confederacy was the "horribilis" tyranny, and, thank God, the loser.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

No, the Yankees in Missouri were the descent into hell for those of the southern persuasion.

Here you go, try this. There are only approximately 75,000 pages of the official reports from the US war department for the War of the Rebellion. Every campaign, battle & skirmish has contemporaneous after action reports from commanders and officers down to second lieutenants, from both the Union and confederate perspectives for the same events.

All 75 volumes are down loadable, this is the gold standard for the history of the civil war. I have been wading through these for sometime now, and still have a long ways to go.

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html

[BillyBoy]

>> It's "dissent," but your anecdotal evidence is NOT supported by the study of Bensel. And name calling him a "Yankee" won't exactly work. <<

You have to wonder if all these "patriots" who sneer when they use word "yankee" are the types to cringe when Yankee Doodle Dandy is played. George Washington and all the other revolutions were sneered at and called "yankees" by the Brits and every American-hating foreign body likes to use the word "yankees" in a similar condescending, sneering tone. They should move to France or Mexico, they'd be right at home with all the other "yankee" haters.