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To: Non-Sequitur
At the very end his own vice president wouldn't talk to him, senior senators in his government were approaching Robert E. Lee about a coup, and he had almost single-handedly, over the course of four long and bloody years, destroyed any chance the confederacy ever had of independence.

The point that Jefferson Davis had drawbacks as a strategic thinker and as an executive hasn't been denied very often, I think; but does saying so support your point that, since Davis was hotter on prolonging the war than most people, including Bobby Lee, does that mean that people were as tepid as you assert in the face of evidence to the contrary just cited? It certainly wasn't the case with the Army of Northern Virginia, the men most likely to suffer direly in any prolongation of hostilities beyond April 9th. Your constant disparagement of Southern resolution in their cause, as if it were slight and febrile, is a skinflinty vein to mine. Better leave it alone. Like looting or stealing candy from children, you can't look good doing it, and you won't get much for your trouble.

280 posted on 05/24/2002 3:10:02 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Can't take the truth, huh? It was all one big happy sothron family? How do you explain the fact that close to 200,000 southerners fought for the Union army? And about half of them were white. Every single confederate state had at least one unit in the Union Army. You had 1st and 2nd North Carolina. First Arkansas Cavalry. First Alabama Infantry. Yet you never heard of a First Illinois or First New York in the confederate army, have you? How do you explain the fact that 30% of your Army of Northern Virginia were draftees? And even more were men who had their enlistment involuntarily extended by Jeff Davis? Better look at that sothron wall of yours. It's full of cracks.
293 posted on 05/24/2002 6:46:33 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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