Thank you, BroJoe, for a thoughtful criticism of Diogenes’ posts. However, I fear I must temper your response and references to what you learned in school with this quote from Gen Patrick Cleburne before he was killed at Nashville:
“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”
Nonsense. Just look at the titles in post #171 - the losers of this conflict have had an unequaled opportunity to share their perspective.
Your quote begs an old axiom: “The winners write the history, but the losers write the mythology”
President Andrew Johnson eventually pardoned all Confederates of such charges.
After the war state governments in all regions did their best to look after wounded veterans, voting money for hospitals and prosthetics.
To my knowledge, no wounded veterans were ever mocked.
1913 Gettysburg battle reunion:
