[Sherman Logan]

A crowd of perhaps 30,000 people that included Stonewall Jackson's widow listened as the day's featured speaker, Alfred Moore Waddell, cast the Confederate dead as American patriots.

They were American patriots. They just had a vision of a different America than I do. Their bravery and tenacity should be honored. (Not their cause.)

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The reb cause was certainly rotten, but a lot of the soldiers, especially in the Upper South, found themselves between a couple of unpleasant options. I imagine there were quite a number of ordinary Confederate soldiers who went into the war like Robert E. Lee with no regard for the concept of secession and no personal respect for the Deep South idiot politicians who led the South into destruction. But such acknowledgment that all confederate soldiers were not racist monsters to be tarred with eternal guilt does not agree with the agenda of the rabid divisive element of the left.