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To my way of seeing it, it's the south who were the bullies, and like most bullies, they couldn't back up their arrogance.

BTW - the Northerners died by the truckload, so they were too beat up & bloodied to thump their chests overmuch about it.

On the contrary, they held a victory parade that took two days. From wikipedia's description of The Grand Review of the Armies.

At 9:00 a.m. on a bright sunny May 23, a signal gun fired a single shot and Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, the victor of Gettysburg, led the estimated 80,000 men of Army of the Potomac down the streets of Washington from Capitol Hill down Pennsylvania Avenue past crowds that numbered into the thousands. The infantry marched with 12 men across the road, followed by the divisional and corps artillery, then an array of cavalry regiments that stretched for another seven miles. The mood was one of gaiety and celebration, and the crowds and soldiers frequently engaged in singing patriotic songs as the procession of victorious soldiers snaked its way towards the reviewing stand in front of the White House, where President Johnson, general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, senior military leaders, the Cabinet, and leading government officials awaited. At the head of his troops, Meade dismounted when he arrived at the reviewing stand and joined the dignitaries to salute his men, who passed for over six hours.
On the following day at 10:00 a.m., Sherman led the 65,000 men of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia, with an uncharacteristic semblance of military precision, past the admiring celebrities, most of which had never seen him before. For six hours under bright sunshine, the men who had marched through Georgia and those who had defeated John Bell Hood's army in Tennessee now paraded in front of joyous throngs lining the sidewalks. People peered from windows and rooftops for their first glimpse of this western army. Unlike Meade's army, which had more military precision, Sherman's Georgia force was trailed by a vast crowd of people who had accompanied the army up from Savannah—freed blacks, laborers, adventurers, scavengers, etc. At the very end was a vast herd of cattle and other livestock that had been taken from Carolina farms.

I believe it was the southern armies who limped home beat up and bloodied.

To my way of seeing it, it's the south who were the bullies

Yes, you would see it that way, wouldn't you?

Everyone knows you have a "fondness" for certain leather "accouterments" of the Almighty State. The thought of jackbooting the South stirs up your juices, no doubt. LOL! :)

It flat-out amazes me when some freepers admit that they're Big Government proponents on a Constitutional, small government website.

And that the proles that don't like it should get a boot-heel to the teeth.