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To: DiogenesLamp
Cool dude. Looks like that part of history class you weren't drawing Confederate flags on the cover of your books, huh? Too part you missed that part how the South started the damn war. And then lost it.
12 posted on 05/17/2019 10:58:30 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: jmacusa
Too part you missed that part how the South started the damn war. And then lost it.

No, I got that part. That is all I ever heard for my entire life. "The South started the war and lost it."

Never doubted this was true, although when I was in Junior High, I never understood why the Blockade was necessary. I asked the history teacher, "Wasn't this mostly a Land war?" I just assumed they enacted the blockade because they needed to give the Navy something to do to make it believe it was supporting the war effort.

In the last few years I have come to realize the Blockade was absolutely the most significant and crucial part of the war, because the Blockade is what kept the South from trading directly with Europe. The war was started specifically to stop the South from trading directly with Europe.

But no, I had the "South started the war and lost it" drummed into me. I quit believing that when the facts didn't match up with what I had been taught.

13 posted on 05/17/2019 11:58:33 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no o<ither sovereignty.")
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