Historian James McPherson
estimated that as many as 50,000 civilians, considered a very
conservative number, perished in the South, and "concluded that the
overall mortality rate for the South exceeded that of any country in
World War I and all but the region between the Rhine and the Volga in
World War II."
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Living in the southern united States means living in the former Confederacy where the history of the War to Enslave the States
is embedded in the very land. Most everywhere in the South contains
some semblance of that history -- the Underground Railroad, the Battle
of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, Gettysburg, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, etc.
Confederate Memorials honoring those who sacrificed
their lives in defense of states' rights abound throughout cities and
towns in the South. Some "Southerners" feel shame regarding this
history, which one relates to an improper focus on the reason for the
war -- slavery.
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How can there be such a difference of position on lincoln between groups of people that are fighting for the same thing...it's boggling.
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"I wish God had not taken Lincoln from us so soon. For he was—from his earliest lawyering days until his Second Inaugural Address, delivered mere weeks before his death—the greatest Conciliator of Americans to each other that we have ever had. If he were here today, could he not show us how to teach, conciliate, persuade, and be persuaded by each other, to be Americans, together?"
I imagine another Beck who knows the truth, but panders to the PC crowd. Thjanks.
DeleteYea, this trio were Communists just like the clown in our White House now.
ReplyDeleteTheir history confirms it. I don't know which one is worse; they all three
crippled this country.
Really.
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