While bringing this aspect of the war up on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg may serve a purpose in your mind, I fail to see it.
Suffice It to say, the South did not prevail, slavery was abolished and you Yanks won the war...
Looking at the results 150 years later, seems to me the liberal, blue, Yankee-loving states aren’t doing so hot....
Yes indeed— it serves only their purpose to needle true Patriots as they remember their loved ones who gave all on foreign battlefields, and as they remember that it was their ancestors who gave us our Bill of Rights and Constitution.
It was not the Yanks who won the war, it was the United States.
Over 40 regiments of southern men fought for the United States. Over 100,000 men in the states in insurrection were able to leave their conscripted service, despite all threats that the insurrection ranged against them.
Canada before the war was the preferred destination of escaped slaves, as the documents provided to persons of African Heritage in Canada were considered proof against the federal enforcers of the Fugitive Slave Act. They were not proof against the lawless kidnappers employed by the slave power, but then again, only hot lead did much to slow them.