[NavyCanDo]

“The Union Army were truly liberators for delivering Dixie from the reb reign of terror.”

I can tell you were educated by the politically correct history teachers and professors who insist the Confederate States of America was our own version of the Third Reich – a blot on American history, and Robert E Lee the equivalent of Rommel.

The Northern victory led to today’s all-powerful federal government. And that’s a good thing?

[bushpilot1]

“The Northern victory led to today’s all-powerful federal government. And that’s a good thing?”

The so called victory gave us President Obama.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I only realized that the Confederacy was an oppressive regime hostile to the Founders' ideals when I went beyond what I learned in school and read for myself contemporary accounts of the times. A good place to start reading about the forgotten ugly nature of the Confederacy is Oliver Perry Temple's 1899 book, East Tennessee and the Civil War. Not only is it a illuminating history of the rebellion in that part of the world, Temple's acquaintances with many of the influential people of the time like Isham Harris, John Bell, Andrew Johnson and Parson Brownlow shine light on the motives leading to secession, accommodation or resistance from the movers and shakers of that age..