[Non-Sequitur]

You castigate Walt for disparaging Lee and his motives, and then you go and do the same for Farragut and George Thomas and John Gibbon and countless others. These men stood by what they thought was right, fought for what they believed in, and are just as worthy as respect as someone like Lee. Where the hell do you get off deciding that your cause was the only one worth fighting for or that your general is the only one deserving honor?

[lentulusgracchus]

These men stood by what they thought was right, fought for what they believed in, and are just as worthy as respect as someone like Lee.

That's just the point. Wlat hangs Lee five times a day. He accords him zero respect, none, zippo. Pardon me for being tedious, but I just thought I'd point that out to you.

[Aurelius]

"Where the hell do you get off deciding that your cause was the only one worth fighting for or that your general is the only one deserving honor?"

Never mind that you will not agree, but one can, on very sound grounds, take the position that the South fought a defensive and hence just war while the North fought an offensive and agressive and hence unjust war. That in particular is my position and it is the one and only reason that I stand with the "neo-Confederates".