Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - More confederacy debate, and now it's right across the lawn

ShaniFaye · 01-06-2005, 04:39 PM

any research will show you that he made that and similar statements MANY times, like I said in my post...its not my job to change your mind....its up to you if you want to learn about issues to do with that war that werent about slavery, it wont cost me any sleep if you dont, all Im doing is pointing out a few things people may not know and hopefully give them cause to research it on their own, if they are really that interested in talking intelligently and informed on the subject.

All Im saying is that the actual people that the majority that fought and died in that war were not slave owners, actually some of them did it for the money, such as it was, to send home to their families. I have a particular ancestor that died in that war, his family received 6 months worth of pay for fighting was and it was less than 60 bucks. The whole point of my ORIGINAL post was to say that those men died for a cause, and it wasnt so much slavery. And you need to remember, the north fired on the south first, if we'd been allowed to seceed in peace there would be a lot of empty pages in the history books.

I have letters that were written by men that didnt really want to be fighting, pages of comments about the hellish war being over..but that they would honor the commitment to their country and die if need be rather than face dishonor. My point....in that era honor had a deeper meaning than it does now.

You want to call them criminals? fine.....like I said....nothing Im going to say is going to change your mind...ALL wars have two sides.....people who really want to understand the dynamics research both sides and find the truth somewhere in the middle.

01-06-2005, 04:39 PM	#17 (permalink)
ShaniFaye Submit to me, you know you want to Location: Lilburn, Ga	any research will show you that he made that and similar statements MANY times, like I said in my post...its not my job to change your mind....its up to you if you want to learn about issues to do with that war that werent about slavery, it wont cost me any sleep if you dont, all Im doing is pointing out a few things people may not know and hopefully give them cause to research it on their own, if they are really that interested in talking intelligently and informed on the subject. All Im saying is that the actual people that the majority that fought and died in that war were not slave owners, actually some of them did it for the money, such as it was, to send home to their families. I have a particular ancestor that died in that war, his family received 6 months worth of pay for fighting was and it was less than 60 bucks. The whole point of my ORIGINAL post was to say that those men died for a cause, and it wasnt so much slavery. And you need to remember, the north fired on the south first, if we'd been allowed to seceed in peace there would be a lot of empty pages in the history books. I have letters that were written by men that didnt really want to be fighting, pages of comments about the hellish war being over..but that they would honor the commitment to their country and die if need be rather than face dishonor. My point....in that era honor had a deeper meaning than it does now. You want to call them criminals? fine.....like I said....nothing Im going to say is going to change your mind...ALL wars have two sides.....people who really want to understand the dynamics research both sides and find the truth somewhere in the middle. __________________ *I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!*