Most of our north/south threads end up with some sort of Civil War was not about slavery comments, as some sort of defense... for example for naming roads after Davis (from Mississippi) and not after Langston (Virgina Black Federal Congressman).
In 1865, after it was pretty darn obvious the South was going to lose, and Lee was getting run down, AFTER the March to the Sea...
Lincoln in person went to the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, and offered amnesty and $400,000,000 in Union money for the South, if they came back into the fold and freed the slaves. That's all they had to do. The leadership in the South knew he would follow through, because in DC the feds paid cash money to the slaveholders who had their slaves set free.
Nope, screw you. Kept the troops in the field to fight and retreat and die, all over slaves. Murdered Lincoln, for slaves.
There are good reason to remember the troops who fought for their states, their towns, their fellow soldiers, but the underlying cause was slavery. Let's stop lying in these threads about that, and concentrate on debating the truth about how locally to recall the soldiers and their service.
In 1865, after it was pretty darn obvious the South was going to lose, and Lee was getting run down, AFTER the March to the Sea...
Lincoln in person went to the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, and offered amnesty and $400,000,000 in Union money for the South, if they came back into the fold and freed the slaves. That's all they had to do. The leadership in the South knew he would follow through, because in DC the feds paid cash money to the slaveholders who had their slaves set free.
Nope, screw you. Kept the troops in the field to fight and retreat and die, all over slaves. Murdered Lincoln, for slaves.
There are good reason to remember the troops who fought for their states, their towns, their fellow soldiers, but the underlying cause was slavery. Let's stop lying in these threads about that, and concentrate on debating the truth about how locally to recall the soldiers and their service.