Most of the Confederate soldiers didn’t understand the politics they were unwittingly fighting for.
I would honor the sacrifice of those who thought they were defending their homes and families.
But most Confederate leaders knew they were traitors to the Union. I can’t honor the suffereing they caused the troops and civilians on both sides.
Lee decided that loyalty to Virginia was more important than letting everyone in all states live as free people.
The notion that my ..... (group) right or wrong should prevail simply allows the Nazi Germanys to exist.
Your view on the civil war is just that.
Slavery was a scapegoat after the war. It was fought on the grounds of tariffs imposed by DC. 75% of DC was funded by the south.
Your illustrious leader would liked to have shipped all the slaves back to Africa, but didn’t see that possible...
The industrial north was taxing the hell out of the agricultural south...THAT was the primary basis for the War between the States...Slavery was a secondary issue...
Slaves were also owned in the northern states...
“Lee decided that loyalty to Virginia was more important than letting everyone in all states live as free people.”
At that time people in EVERY state, north and south, thought of themselves as citizens of their state first and the nation second.
It wasn’t until later that the notion of nation first, state second came about.
Gen William Tecumseh Sherman, no doubt one of your heroes, moved in the highest levels of southern society while stationed in South Carolina.
While his brother was a virulent abolitionist W T Sherman had little problem with slavery and was sympathetic to southerners defense of slavery. He knew the south.
In 1859 Sherman became the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy, now LSU. He would have been content to stay there if not for the Civil War.
An Ohioan, Sherman left to rejoin the union army for the Civil War in January, 1861.
Best known for his scortched earth policy, Sherman was responsible for burning, looting and rape throughout the south.
But I guess that was okay since a union general was doing it to southerners. Right?