[ought-six]

"Stonewall Jackson stated many, many times how much he hated the Union soldiers. And as for Robert Lee, U.S. troops killed at his command would have been thrilled to know that he was not hateful."

I guess you would have great love and affection towards armed forces attacking your home and your loved ones. Yep, you are indeed a true warm-and-fuzzy, touchy-feely liberal. Turn the other cheek, hand over your daughter to the rapine hordes: that appears to be you in a nutshell. As for your comment about Robert E. Lee, of course Lee ordered his troops to fight -- and yes, to kill -- the enemy: he was, after all, fighting a war; and warriors do kill their enemies, unlike liberals like you, who want to nuzzle their enemies' ears and whisper sweet nothings. I could turn your comment around and say the same thing about Grant, and Sherman, and the like. But that would be climbing down to your level of fallacious reasoning, and that is somewhere I just won't go. Good day, Sir.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The rebels started the war, and the U.S. Army and Navy finished it.

[Grand Old Partisan]

One of my favorite Civil War-era quotes is from the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee in July 1861:

“If their whole country be made a desert, in order to save this Union, so let it be! There will be no bargaining, there will be no negotiations, there will be no truces with the rebels until every man shall have laid down his arms, disbanded his organization, submitted himself to the Government, and sued for mercy.”

Fierce, yes, but no more so than Abraham Lincoln’s resolve in his second inaugural address: “Yet, if God will that [the Civil War] continue, until all the wealth piled up by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with a sword, as it was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

Amen