[alphadog]

If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett up the middle, you'd be paying taxes to Richmond instead of Washington.

Maybe true... but the South needed to repel Grant at Vickburg as well, which was a more critical loss to the South. (or if you fought a hit and run war based on the mountains) BTW if the "War for States Rights" were fought today "you would kick their ass"...in addition, read "Blacks in Grey" to subdue yankee claim it was about slavery. As Longstreet said we should have freed the slaves then fired at Fort Sumter

[Rome2000]

My wife and I were born up north, we live in Florida now.

I was telling my 6 year old about the Civil war. He asked who had won, North or South, and when I replied North, he exclaimed in a shocked voice,"We Lost?"

I then had to tell him his parents were both ex-yankees.