jb2000
That is a very well thought out interesting post.
Do you really believe that Lincoln, Grant, and most yankees were in the war to promote the rights of black people? Lincoln said that if he could preserve the Union without freeing any slaves, he would do it. His opinion was the solution was to export them all somewhere else. Grant owned slaves till well after the war ended.
IMHO it was all about preserving the Union, slavery was just a side issue used by the north to gain favor in the world because slavery's days were over almost everywhere else. From what I have read most northerners could not care one way or another. The whole country was racist for years to come. Slavery's days were numbered war or no war.
I despise the hate groups like the KKK using the CSA battle flag for a symbol of hate. I am saddened that civil rights groups let them dictate how the symbol is perceived.
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