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Barb, it is a pleasure to be
on the same side with an intellectual. You have cut through the drivel, the
propaganda, the misrepresentations and arrived at the Shining City on a
Hill.
America has much to be
proud of, but the manner in which it has handled its history is not one of them.
Doltish professors, dashing off tomes researched at only the campus library
isn't history.I can put all the original research done in history in the
past 150 years into a tourist pamphlet. Much of the so-called history
found in Union records and put there by the devious hand of Dishonest
Abe
is pure fabrication. Lincoln feared he
would be tried as a war criminal, whether he won,or lost the war. The
records, many of them, reflect this effort to cover his backside. Even the
Union residents were fed up with the old shyster. Protests against his starting
the Civil War (yep, he did it!)were played out all across the country, even in
the West, where the War was as remote as Pago Pago. Like the media today, called
them 'draft riots' not anti-Lincoln riots. Many in the North were outspoken
about the atrocities
the North put upon the South.
I have studied the War and its
causes nd aftermath since I was 13. I have spent as long as two weeks at a time
digging in the old records at the National Archives, Library of Congress and
even in the records they don't talk about, warehoused over in Virginia. Many
records were never collected,many more were destroyed. Later the records
were 'sanitized' to remove even a hint of
Union atrocities and brutality.
Without a government to lead
them, without money for more than bread, without any hint of reward or glory,
Southerners survived the Lincoln debacle and 12 years of pure hell following the
war.
Many Southerners know their history,
because they have taught themselves. Schools,colleges, and universities haven't
a clue.
So we are eternally
different,borne out of circumstances that most northerners could not even
imagine. But always some will carry the banner.
The Confederacy, never a
traitor to a nation that abused its Southern people, still lives ...in Brazil,
where those who went there atthe close of the war, now number some 30,000
...continue their culture unmolested,returning their sons and daughters to old
Confederate states to
educate them.They remain the cultured and
worthy people of their ancestors.
Sorry, you didn't ask
for a treatise.
Hermit in the Woods.
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