UNIONISTS?!? No they were not. Southerners saw the formation of a centralized government under Lincoln no less a threat to liberty than the English monarchy their grandfathers had fought. They believed each state had a right to govern its own people as its own populus saw fit without the dictate of a central comptroller. They believed when Lincoln called 75,000 troops to a standing army, he violated the Constitution. They believed when Lincoln sent them against their Southern counterparts, he violated morality. More than a half million dead and another million or more wounded is hardly "lukewarm" support.
Amen.
But your post doesn't fit in with the revisionist tripe taught in schools and colleges today.
Well said...and now I don't have to post.
They did so because the Republicans ran on the platform of limiting the growth of slavery.
This is what they saw as a threat to their 'rights'.
They did not think each state had a right to govern its own people when they demanded that Northern States return runaway slaves and used the Federal gov't to enforce that law.
This nation was either going to be either all free or all slave.
The Confederate flag represents the side that wanted it all slave.
But this thread is on school clothing not the Confederate flag.
I agree with the Col. and another poster that a dress code should be put in place either uniforms or high standard clothing (like one would wear to church or work)
> Southerners saw the formation of a centralized government under Lincoln no less a threat to liberty than the English monarchy their grandfathers had fought.
And so, they formed a feudal system straight out of the middle ages.
> They believed when Lincoln called 75,000 troops to a standing army, he violated the Constitution.
So they formed their own standing army, and attacked the United States first.
> They believed when Lincoln sent them against their Southern counterparts, he violated morality.
So it's OK for Southern serfs to attack Northern citizens, but not appropriate for the Northerners to respond.
Many southern citizens welcomed the Union army as liberators from confederate tyranny. Here's an diary entry from Illinois soldier Charles Partridge on his regiment's entry into Red Clay, Georgia:
"The Union citizens were quite demonstrative, some of them even bringing out flags, which had doubtless been hidden for at least three years. Women swung their bonnets and men hurrahed for the Yankees and the Union, manifesting great delight. One man, who claimed to be ninety-eight years old and to have been a captain in the War of 1812, was almost frantic in his ejaculations when the Old Flag came into sight."
Can you imagine the patriotic thrill today of the arrival of the American army into your town to free you from oppressors who would not even let you own the Stars and Stripes? There were many brave men in the CSA's front lines, but rebel government at home was brutal to the significant number who loved the old Union.
"The great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people."
And if the South had won we'd be two countries. SO Say YOU ARE GLAD THE UNION WON.