“My brother lives in Georgia and reports that Sherman continues to be despised”
You would be right. Revisionist history cannot even paint over this butcher and war criminal.
People wonder why there is still such animosity toward the North 150 years later but there is no mystery to it. First it has not been that long. My mother’s great uncle who she knew well as a child was in the Civil War. There are still a few children of Civil War Vets living. One or two Civil War widows still on govt pensions. So there are firsthand stories still available as to what actually transpired during the conflict.
The Southern states are still operating under Reconstruction election laws 150 years later that do not apply to the Northern states. What’s wrong with that picture?
The wounds of the Civil War have not healed and are not likely to as the war was only peripherally about slavery. It was mostly about states rights. Now we see the country beginning to tear apart again due to the same issue. Unless things change drastically and soon we will likely see the North and South separate again in our lifetime.
Absolutely...every time I hear some talking head blather on about the Civil War being only about slavery, I tune 'em out...
No matter how hard you try.
The Southern states are still operating under Reconstruction election laws 150 years later that do not apply to the Northern states. What’s wrong with that picture?
See what I mean about revisionism? Southern states operated under election laws that date way back to the 1960's, not the 1860's. And the Supreme Court overturned those.
The wounds of the Civil War have not healed and are not likely to as the war was only peripherally about slavery. It was mostly about states rights.
To say the civil war was not about slavery is to say that the first Gulf War was not about oil.
Back in 1994 I knew a man who claimed that his grandfather was a cavalry officer during the Civil war. I found it incredible that I actually knew someone who spoke with someone from the Civil war. History isn't really that far away when you think about it.
We are currently still paying for many past mistakes that we think of as "history."
That would be the Voting Rights Act of 1965, not the Reconstruction laws of 1865.
I'm a Yankee who has spent most of my life in the South. I have been persuaded to the States Rights origin theory but believe slavery is what brought the wrath of God down upon the South. It will be States Rights again, with sodomite marriage bringing the wrath upon the North this next go round.
"States' rights" only in the sense of some states' rights to unilaterally declare secession, form their own Confederacy, then provoke, start and formally declare war on the United States while sending their own military to support Confederates in Union states & territories -- yes, indeed, those "states' rights".
In fact, secessionists of the time, 1860 & early 1861, made no secret of their primary purpose, to protect their "way of life" and their "peculiar institution", slavery, against Northern abolitionists and "Black Republicans" like Abraham Lincoln.
Those secessionists were not ashamed of slavery, far from it, they were quite proud, saying slavery was the greatest wealth-producing invention of all time.
Because of slavery, the average Southerner was better-off than average northerners, and the wealthiest individuals in the country were the great Southern plantation owners.
So Deep-South secessionists could not imagine living without slavery, and took as total "fighting words" any call to restrict, much less abolish, it.
That's why the mere November 1860 election of "Black Republican" Lincoln was so unacceptable that secessionists immediately began organizing to declare independence and form their own Confederacy.
It was all about protecting their "peculiar institution" of slavery.
Of course, neither slaves, nor slavery started Civil War -- that was done by secessionists eager to assert their ownership over anything Union within slave-holding states.
Losing sucks.
I live in an area that still hates Mohawks.