[ScreamingFist]

I have what some Southern sympathizers and Unreconstructed Confederate terrorists might consider a peculiar attitude toward our Civil War dead ~ namely that all honor and glory goes to the Union Army, and to all of our dead. Anything less than that is anti-American!

Your first mistake is believing the Civil War was about freeing slaves, it wasn't.

[muawiyah]

You can believe what you wish. My ancestors fought to free the slaves. Your ancestors may well have fought for the privilege of rich men to keep slaves. Yet others may have fought for the opportunity to undertake fraud, graft and corruption in a debilitated, conquered South.

In the end the slaves were freed.