Most of our leaders post-war promoted reconciliation. I cannot stand by and watch these scalliwags tear down our amazing history. I’m from NYC and remember the horrible Liz Holtzman voting against restoring RE Lee’s citizenship. This is from a town that was totally COPPERHEAD! I should know, my Irish immigrant family were all draft dodgers and copperheads. We made up for it in WWI and WWII.
Recall, of course, that when the Army of the Potomac was winning it’s victory at Gettysburg, and Grant’s Army was winning the seige of Vicksburg, there were draft riots in NYC.
But the Union soldiers, by and large, understood the honorable nature and behavior of their Confederate opponants. General Chamberlain, a Maine college professor and abolitionist, calling the AotP to Carry Arms as the ANV paraded past to stack arms and lay down their colors, got the sentiment exactly right. If only today’s Progressives could follow his example.
And I say that as a descendent of Pennsylvania abolitionists who had relatives spread out across various PA Civil War units.
Hello Miss Marmelstein, how have you been? My ancestors fought in The Army Of The Potomac.
Copperheads were great people. No apology needed.