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  • Perspective: Die-hard Confederates should be reconstructed

    09/30/2003 12:19:22 PM PDT · by sheltonmac · 1,914 replies · 2,383+ views
    St. Augustine Record ^ | 09/27/2003 | Peter Guinta
    The South's unconditional surrender in 1865 apparently was unacceptable to today's Neo-Confederates. They'd like to rewrite history, demonizing Abraham Lincoln and the federal government that forced them to remain in the awful United States against their will. On top of that, now they are opposing the U.S. Navy's plan to bury the crew of the CSS H.L. Hunley under the American flag next year. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. In 1863, it rammed and fatally damaged the Union warship USS Housatonic with a fixed torpedo, but then the manually driven sub sank on its...