Sherman,
Let me apologize publicly. My last post to you has hostile and undeserved when I re-read your initial comments.
Please blame it on male menopause and too much scotch in a hillbilly Scots-Irishman.
Your comments are sound. Arguable, but sound.
No problemo.
I’ve had a lot worse said to me when discussing the subject. Some around here appear to think that only those who think Lee and Davis were the bee’s knees can be true conservatives. Anybody who disagrees is a Lincoln-worshiper and a closet liberal.
I have read a great deal about the period, which I find fascinating. My comments reflect my synthesis of all that research and my understanding of what really happened, not an attempt to hunt around and find ammo to promote a cause for today.
Way too many people, IMO, see our modern conflicts as foreshadowed in great detail by the WBTS. By this idea, modern conservatives are just warmed-over confederates, racist and violent. Most who think this way are liberals, but amazingly, to me, a number of people who claim to be conservatives seem to agree. Group A thinks they strike some kind of blow against modern American conservatives when they denounce slavery and the CSA, and group B seems to think they are defending America and conservatism when they defend slavery or the CSA.
I think both groups are weird. Very few conflicts of more than a few decades back can be analogized directly to those of today. Most certainly not the WBTS.