[Yellow Rose of Texas]

My Great, Great Grandfather fought under General Forrest for Jefferson Davis. My Grandfather was named Forrest after the General. I had family that fought on both sides. The war was not about JUST slavery as most of the Confederate Soldiers did not own slaves. It was about States rights vs Federal Government. We are fighting the same battle today: Big Government vs a smaller non intrusive Government.

[womanvet]

Slavery had very little to do with the war. As you say, it was a test of the Constitution, and the Constitution lost.

LOL, since he was my daughter's great grand-father, that makes him my grand-daddy, and I was one lucky girl to have known him for as long as I did.

History books have been re-written, not only to change the causes of the War of Northern Aggression, but also to change the meaning of the Constitution itself. We are the worse for it.

I cannot understand why we acquiesce in this perversion of the past. I realise that those who attend the PC-ridden government-run schools do not know any better, but why do we act like sheep and permit it to happen?

True, textbooks have been censored to the point where truth is unrecognisable, yet the original documents still remain. Remember, if you will, that the proclamation issued by Lincoln did not free slaves in northern states, It was not an issue of freedom for slaves, and certainly not one of equality. The entire point was a terrorist attempt to start an uprising of Blacks in the South -- Blacks, many of whom fought beside the White soldiers of the Confederacy.

Oops, sorry. I better get off the soapbox; someone else may need it.