[Mr. Silverback]

“A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.”

Let's say for a moment that what you are saying is true. Even so, it would make all this stuff lost causers say about the tyrannical Lincoln and the freedom-loving South a whole lot of horse-hockey.

That said, go read what LS and his co-author wrote about it. There is no comparison.

[FredHunter08]

“Let’s say for a moment that what you are saying is true. Even so, it would make all this stuff lost causers say about the tyrannical Lincoln and the freedom-loving South a whole lot of horse-hockey.”

It’s a bit difficult to start a government in a war.

Oh, and the “well, your guy did it to” is not a defense.