Exactly. And to paraphrase Mel Gibson: The union sympathizers on this thread shower praise on their ancestors who fought a tyrant 3,000 miles away but want to shame my ancestors who, a few years later, fought a hundred tyrants 500 miles away. Go figure.
the REAL problem that caused the WBTS was that the DAMNyankees just wouldn't stay at home, mind their own patch & leave the southland ALONE & UNmolested.
to quote a Black CSA infantryman, captured by the DYs in '64, "I'm still fighting ya because you're still HERE!"
well said, says i.
free dixie,sw