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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: JDN who wrote (48968)4/18/2005 2:36:04 PM
From: Rick  Read Replies (1) of 59480
 
Wasn't it Longstreet who when asked long after the war "who was most responsible for the Confederate lose at Gettysburg?" replied "I alway thought the Union had something to do with it."

I went on a Civil War Roundtable tour of eastern battlefields a few years ago and to cut expenses we teamed up with Southern roundtables. Well, did we get an earful about how nefarious Lincoln was in tricking Jefferson Davis into attacking Fort Sumter. I wanted to answer something along the lines of "wasn't that his job?" or maybe "So who forced Jeff Davis to fall for it?," but if I did there would have been a third battle of Manassas right there.

So why was Ann so wrong?

- Rick
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