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To: LogicalMs; All
dear lady,

your post is so filled with Inaccuracies that i hardly know where to begin.

first, Robert E. Lee NEVER owned a single slave. he was an ABOLITIONIST. (in point of fact, he caused a rift in his marriage when he UNlawfully freed his WIFE's slaves, which she had received from her family by legacy. had he been anyone but REL, he would have been charged with THEFT for doing this.)

2d, sherman the destroyer, was nothing more or less than a WAR CRIMINAL, whose troopsREALLY good at killing UNarmed civilians (especially "persons of colour",like MY family which had at least 92 members tortured,raped,robbed & MURDERED in coldblood only because they were NOT white persons).

U S Grant, otoh, was a slaveOWNER & slave OVERSEER. (according to the book "Collected Annals of Old Missouri" published 1908 by the Office of the State historian,Grant was a really "good hand with the whip").

3d, Scarlett O'Hara & her real-life sisters of the plantation class not only were spared by the union army, but frequently were COLLOBORATORS with the enemy. (i am NOT a defendor of or admirer of the slaveowning elites. my family was poor;Tara was as remote, socially & financially, to them as the moon.) had we won our war for independence, the aristocracy would likely have been NEXT on our list of enemies. one major reason that we did not win was that peasant revolts (even when led by military geniuses like Lee, Forrest & Jackson) seldom succeed.

may gently suggest that you go do some research from ORIGIONAL DOCUMENTS, rather than reading the self-serving apologists for the damnyankees & the coven of thugs from the lincoln regime.

free dixie,sw

123 posted on 10/11/2004 7:38:56 AM PDT by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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