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Charles Francis Adams's claims were investigated and largely refuted in his own lifetime by Colonel Edgar Dudley. You can find Dudley's article here. So far as I know, in the century since Dudley wrote, no one has disproved his findings.

Since Adams backs you up on this, he's trustworthy and admirable. If he disagreed with you about secession, you'd attack him as a typical elitist and racist Boston Brahmin (which he largely was, not a "Yankee" by the way -- at least not the way we use the word up heah).

[Pelham]

” If he disagreed with you about secession, you’d attack him as a typical elitist and racist Boston Brahmin “

So what are you, a fortune teller? Or just an arrogant damyankee twit? (excuse the redundancy, bub)

“which he largely was, not a “Yankee” by the way — at least not the way we use the word up heah”

You apply Yankee the way you want, and I’ll do the same thank you very much.