Thanks Buddy. I got it!! I started studying the "War of Northern Aggression" while in 7th grade in 1959. While I was born in the north and have been a Westerner most all my life, I'm a true Confederate at heart. That feeling came within the first few months of study. The South was truely wronged for decades and the abuse is intensifying again.
Nam Vet
P.S. I was with JEB Stuart at Yellow Tavern too! ;)
(JEB = James Ewell Brown for whoeveer doesn't know)
There's a guy in Asheville by the name of H.K. Edgerton. Of all the characters I met while living in that town, he's the one who comes to mind best: a former president of that area's NAACP, he's now a staunch defender/advocate of the Confederacy. And he goes to amazing lengths to keep the heritage alive: I darn nearly crashed my car the day I saw this black man, wearing a Confederate officer's uniform, holding up the Confederate battle flag outside a school in Asheville. He was protesting their suspension of some kids who wore the flag on their shirts.
Increasingly, the true story of blacks and their role in the Confederate army is becoming known... and as bold as it is to say, but appreciated, too. Let this present generation of hatemongers - the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons, the Sheila Jackson-Lees and the Clintons - let the earth claim them and their entire generation's wretchedness. When they are forgotten, the true history will have, at last, a day in the sun.