[DiogenesLamp]

While some defenders of Dixie claim the issue was states’ rights, the chief underlying cause of the war was slavery.

Nope. That's just the propaganda lie spread to justify an invasion that killed 750,000 people so that Washington DC could continue exerting economic control over the very lucrative Southern export trade.

The cause of the war was *MONEY* which would have been lost to New York and Washington DC (the corrupt "establishment") if the South governed themselves.

At stake was about 700 million dollars per year in a 4.5 billion dollar economy, and the Northern states launched that war to prevent the loss of that money to their economy.

[Fiji Hill]

It was in this month, one hundred and fifty-seven years ago, that the Civil War ended.

Not quite. The Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last land battle of the war--and a Confederate victory--was fought in May, 1865. And during the summer, the raider CSS Shenandoah wiped out the Yankee whaling fleet in the Bering Sea.

[Midwesterner53]

Great article. Thank you.

[shortstop]

We should have picked our own cotton.

[wardaddy]

Lord this will bring out the assholes

[conserv8]

bkmk

[CarolinaReaganFan]

ping
! always enjoy our Confederate Memorial Day.
all soldiers were heroes regardless of side