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To: stainlessbanner

I knew about this when I was just a lad..some 45 years ago..my Dad, a Southerner, explained this to me..it's not "startling" or new..


3 posted on 02/21/2006 8:00:55 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

"startling" even


4 posted on 02/21/2006 8:02:37 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Exactly, anyone who has read Shelby Foote knows this.


6 posted on 02/21/2006 8:03:59 AM PST by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

"I knew about this when I was just a lad..some 45 years ago..my Dad, a Southerner, explained this to me..it's not "startling" or new.."



Heck, it's one of the most memorable scenes from Gone with the Wind, which was filmed in 1939!

"Don't worry, Miss Scarlett, we'll stop them Yankees!"


11 posted on 02/21/2006 8:08:39 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Indeed, there were black regiments that fought on the side of the Confederacy. There were "uncomfortable" moments when veterans of these regiments showed up at commemorative events in the years after the war.

And, as any serious student of history knows, the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in the Southern states.


19 posted on 02/21/2006 8:12:37 AM PST by Arm_Bears (You are the New Day.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I knew about this when I was just a lad..some 45 years ago..my Dad, a Southerner, explained this to me..it's not "startling" or new..

So did I. It was common knowledge among mainstream history courses, books and documentaries. Don't know what is so revolutionary about this news.

61 posted on 02/21/2006 8:30:12 AM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Not, it's not... Just kept swept under the rug because this does not go well with the "reason" the Civil War was fought...


124 posted on 02/21/2006 9:10:58 AM PST by sit-rep (If you acquire, hit it again to verify...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I've known this for a long time, but evidently it was a EUREKA! moment for the professor.


159 posted on 02/21/2006 10:02:10 AM PST by Carolinamom (I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. ---Ronald Reagan)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

"I knew about this when I was just a lad..some 45 years ago..my Dad, a Southerner, explained this to me..it's not "startling" or new.."

It is common knowledge in the South.


209 posted on 02/21/2006 3:58:57 PM PST by edwin hubble
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Agreed. Teaching "new" facts to the majority of U.S. Citizens who can't tell you who fought in the Civil War must be a lucrative business.
235 posted on 02/22/2006 4:06:09 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems. NRA)
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