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People who are still fighting the Civil War on the internet are capable of generating more drama than a legion of 15 year old emo kids on MySpace. XD

It's an interesting subject once you get beyond the PC drummed into peoples heads over what it was actually about. There's a lot of history as well. Even the battles. Some of the best thought out battle plans for example came from the most unconventional sources. Some of the best units were ones you'll never read about in the main stream history pages like this one.

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People who are still fighting the Civil War on the internet are capable of generating more drama than a legion of 15 year old emo kids on MySpace. XD

It's an interesting subject once you get beyond the PC drummed into peoples heads over what it was actually about. There's a lot of history as well. Even the battles.

I cannot recall a single Free Republic Civil War thread that has ever gotten beyond endless arguments about the political justifications of the war and charges and counter-charges of "treason", "slavery", "Lincoln was a tyrant", "Davis should have been hung", etc., etc. ......

It seems as if FR Civil War threads are always firmly stuck in either March 1861 or May 1865.

It would be nice to be able to have a Civil War thread that dispassionately discussed generalship, campaigns, tactics, individual exploits, individual failings, camp life , camp followers, the home fronts, etc. without rehashing the political fire-breathing on either side of the Potomac for the 947th time.

I don’t thing that bunch described in the link is very much to be admired. The mountains were filled with such troublers of the peace of a region that had limited sympathy with the Confederacy and the illegal secession process that took Tennessee out of the Union. The best thing that can be said about gangs like that is that they helped Union recruitment in Tennessee and made the public that much more happy to see the arrival of the Union army.