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To: Georgia Girl 2

Prior to the War, the boundary line between North and South was generally considered to coincide to the line between slave and free states.

IOW, nobody in the North owned slaves during the war, using that definition, although some in southern states that remained loyal to the Union did.

Your claim was that Grant and Sherman both owned slaves.

I demonstrated that your claims about Grant were exaggerated if not false, and asked you for something resembling evidence that your claim about Sherman was true.

You responded by irrelevant remarks about northerners owning slaves. Why don’t you document your attack on General Sherman?

I am somewhat familiar with Sherman’s life prior to the war. While it is entirely probable he used borrowed or rented slave labor for brief periods, it’s unlikely he ever had the time or spare funds to go around purchasing slaves.


54 posted on 01/18/2014 10:23:55 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

“Your claim was that Grant and Sherman both owned slaves”

A claim is a parcel of land that you dig up gold on. :-)

The written recorded history of the Civil War verifies that Sherman and Grant as well as many other Northern officers and northerners including blacks owned slaves.

I know its hard to face I want to help you. I care about you. :-)


60 posted on 01/18/2014 11:26:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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