I’m a Tennessean, born & bred. My ancestors fought on the
Confederate side; great-great grandfather fought at Shiloh.
I grew up with my parents taking me to Shiloh, which was
close to the town where I was born.
My folks did not worship Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did NOT
have to have that war; and he did a lot of illegal stuff
while “winning” that war. (My folks who fought the Civil
War did not own slaves; they did their own work.) I did
have some distant kinfolks who had slaves down in the
Georgia Indian Territory in the late 1700’a. One of the
boys married a Cherokee woman; his momma pitched a fit,
his daddy gave him his inheritance in gold. He & my
5th great-grandmother took a riverboat up the Tinase
River to Perryville, Tennessee. That’s partly how I ended
up in Tennessee. One of their kids was a lightskeeper on
the Tinase (Tennessee) River & carried the Smith &
Wesson revolver that I now own. - A lot of water under
the old bridge.
Lincoln had the war thrust upon him.