[Pern]

This whole article is a lie.

Sorry, I disagree. This seems to be a well researched piece, but if you want to join the Politically Correct crowd and bash the evil, two-headed, baby-eating, everyone had 10 slaves soliders of the CSA, feel free.

But those of us that have relatives that fought and died for their property (by that I mean land, not slaves) won't join the PC crowd and attack the CSA because it's the PC 'flavor of the day'.

I believe that the CSA's soliders were just like those before and after them, they fought for Duty, Honor, and Country.

[Grand Old Partisan]

They fought against "Country" -- the United States of America!!!

As for "well-researched" -- where is the research to support his assertion that 18,000 blacks fought in the rebel army? He himself admits that black rebel graves are "scarcer than hen's teeth." Why, because as with hen's teeth, there aren't any.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Here you are yourself a revisionist. The Confederates made very clear at the time that the property they were fighting for was, above all, slaves.

[Illbay]

Not bashing anyone, just pointing out that this rebellion of slave owners did not have the support of 70,000 armed former slaves.

It just never happened.

[nanny]

Sorry, I disagree. This seems to be a well researched piece, but if you want to join the Politically Correct crowd and bash the evil, two-headed, baby-eating, everyone had 10 slaves soliders of the CSA, feel free.

Oh, but my goodness must nip this in the bud, nip this in the bud, - blacks who fought for the South - Oh say it isn't so? If there were - they were slaves that were chained to the wagon wheels, doncha know? Also, there were no free blacks in the South. There were no black slave owners. Every and I mean every barefooted ridgerunner owned slaves. No one in the North every owned slaves. Only angels lived north of the Mason-Dixon and only cruel, rich, lazy, slaveowners lived south of it - slaves excepted. No Republican ever owned slaves - read that little jewel of wisdom right here in FR. Lincoln was the greatest man that ever lived. He had absolutely no reason to pursue the war other than his love for the black man and his desire to see them free. Have I left anything out?

I don't know the name of the poster - but we will in all probability be 'enlightened' with reams and reams of articles about Lincoln's wonderfulness.

You know. If the Southerners were such heinous people and such a blight on the union - and since at the time, slavery was legal, and so was succession. The wonderful Lincoln said so - just didn't think 'this' was a good enough reason, why didn't they just let them go from the union and consider it good riddance to bad trash? I have always wondered that. If I had relatives that were doing legal things but totally heinous (slavery was), I would want to distance myself from them. I wouldn't want them around me.

I feel that way about politically correct relatives right now.

[WhiskeyPapa]

This whole article is a lie.

Sorry, I disagree.

Your disagreement ignores even a cursory examination of the readily available record.

Walt