Yes, and if you've ever read these threads on FR, you know they like to "pile on" and spout hateful nonsense about honorable men like General Lee.
I know they do, and I agree that it is disgraceful. Equally disgraceful is all the yankee bashing and Lincoln hatred that seems to surface every time a Lincoln related thread is posted.
Why do so many people believe that the War of Northern Aggression was about slavery? Why do they accept what they read in textbooks written and compiled after 1950 when the “revision-conquistas” took over writing lies and propaganda?
The WAR was fought for some of the same reasons that the American Revolution was fought. States Rights to live peacefully and not be harangued by Big Government. The winning “wonderful” North slapped tariffs on items manufactured in the South and failed to repeal them until the 1960’s. And you wonder why we still cry “The South Will Rise Again?” http://www.etymonline.com/cw/economics.htm
http://www.tax.org/Museum/1861-1865.htm You might want to start with http://www.tax.org/Museum/default.htm to read ALL about taxes and tariffs.
GREAT read and worth the time. Read it tomorrow instead of listening or watching Zero’s Coronation.
We Southerners carry the Bonnie Blue Flag, the Confederate Battle Flag, the Gadsden Flag, the Moultrie Flag, the Culpeper Flag. None of those EVER flew over a slave ship. The “Stars and Stripes” you so proudly hail was the Flag flying on Slave Ships; the Flag under which Africans were sold to Northerners and Southerners alike.
History books may be revised, but the truth is burned into every Southerner’s heart. Veritas vos Liberabit.