[KC_Lion]

I say these things because I hate the Confederates.

If this had taken place in any other country other than America, The Southerners as the Vanquished, would have been subject to horrific Punishments.

Think about what happens if you were on the Losing Side of an African Bush War, The Japanese Shogun Wars in the late 1800's.

Horrible things.

But not here, Not in America. We needed to the United States Again.

In the War there were Heroes, Smugglers, Traitors and Rebels and everything in between.

A Good Act does not Wash out the Bad, Or the Bad Act the Good.

But Cleaner ways don't win wars.

[central_va]

I say these things because I hate the Confederates.

No need to say it it was pretty clear. Why don't you go over to Memphis I hear they need a few more grave robbers. Maybe you could run around with Forrests skull like a sadistic voodoo witch doctor.

[cripplecreek]

I think reconstruction would have been a whole lot more favorable to the south had Lincoln lived. His death brought a lot of people to power who sought nothing more than revenge.

Few in the south hailed Boothe as a hero both because his was a cowardly act and because they knew it would bring harsh treatment on the south.

[ought-six]

“I say these things because I hate the Confederates.”

Then you must, of course, also hate the Founding Fathers, the Continental Army, etc. Because they did the same thing the Confederates did. One won, the other didn’t.

[Fiji Hill]

If this had taken place in any other country other than America, The Southerners as the Vanquished, would have been subject to horrific Punishments.

And had that happened, Southern partisans would have taken to the mountains, the pine forests and the swamps to wage guerrilla warfare, and the Civil War would have continued as a low-intensity conflict, perhaps for decades.