To: Colonel Kangaroo
I had many kinsmen in the Confederate Army of Tennessee and one in the Army of Northern Virginia. Sir, they were not traitors, but patriots. That said, I had at least one ancestor who served the Union as a cavalryman. He was an East Tennesse Unionist. I am NOT ashamed of him, NOR my Confederate kin. They all had the courage of their convictions, a rare quality these days. I honor them all.
360 posted on
09/16/2005 3:29:57 PM PDT by
Mush MouthPhil
(socialism is a drug in the nation's system)
To: Mush MouthPhil
we descendants of the "poor, hungry, barefooted but VALIANT & HONORABLE lads in gray rags" also honor ALL the participants in the WBTS, provided that they weren't WAR CRIMINALS like sherman or butler.
free dixie,sw
367 posted on
09/16/2005 10:16:13 PM PDT by
stand watie
(being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
To: Mush MouthPhil
My traitor comment wasn't directed to the soldiers. It was directed to the Confederate government whose greatest wish would have a foreign army intervene and attack fellow Americans.
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