I don’t claim what the South did was right. There are some decent arguments concerning State’s Rights though.
Whether we all agree with what took place or not, the fact is many of these Civil War men served with honor against us.
I have no problem with them honoring their war dead.
This expunging of history is just chicken s—t!
All the south did was declare independence from a section of the country that had financially raped them for decades leading up to the war, then defend their homeland against those who insisted that this financial slavery was not going to end. Slavery ENDED in the United States of America the minute all of the slave holding states left the union. The war was not about ending slavery. It had already left the union. It was about keeping a subserviant section of the country in the south subserviant to it’s masters in the north.
Whether we all agree with what took place or not, the fact is many of these Civil War men served with honor against us.
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Keep his statue for a museum, but know that Forrest was no Lee or Jackson. The unit under his command massacred black POW’s without mercy. After the war, he became active in the KKK.