[Heyworth]

What I don't appreciate, from some on these threads, is the accusation that my ancestors were traitors and the assumption that the North held the moral high ground because it was fighting to end slavery.

I, on the other hand, don't appreciate the constant drumbeat that my two great-great-great grandfathers who fought with Illinois regiments--one of them losing a leg--were dupes of some yankee master plan to bring the south under their boot.

[groanup]

I haven't seen such drumbeat and wouldn't condone it. What master plan? I've not seen such posts.