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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (249689)	4/26/2014 7:46:33 PM
From: Sam	of 540641

There was a fair bit of sympathy for the Confederacy in Maryland, but one of Lincoln's first acts was to send the military into Baltimore and a few other key areas of the state. He did not want DC to be surrounded by MD and VA. Can't blame him--Southerners would not have treated him anywhere nearly as well as the North treated Jeff Davis after the Civil War. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in white Southern affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E. Lee. Nevertheless, many Southerners empathized with his defiance, refusal to accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction. Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South. [5] Davis wrote a memoir entitled The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, which he completed in 1881 and which also helped to restore his reputation. By the late 1880s, he began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union. No wonder he told them to be loyal to the Union--the election of 1876 ended Reconstruction and the old line South got to virtually reenslave African Americans through the sharecropping system. And they also gradually took a good deal of control of the history of slavery and the antebellum period for about 70 years or so. So that people could say without a sly grin on their face that the Civil wasn't caused by slavery, among other preposterous things.

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