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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (46155)1/31/2000 10:40:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Did you see the IJN and USN veterans on Ballard's ship sailing together over Iron Bottom Bay?

Here's a copy of Innes Randolph's Unreconstructed Rebel that shows the warm, reconciliatory feelings of many Southern veterans.

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no amnisty
For anything I've done.

I hates the Constitution,
The Declaration too;
I hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.

We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern shot and shell;
I wish it was three million of them
Roastin' now in hell!.

I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo',
But I ain't a-gone 'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed
and I do not give a damn!