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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (122033)	1/14/2001 9:01:21 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tom, I've read widely on the Confederate period, and the horrific acts committed by rebel troops both during the war and in the later war to tear down reconstruction. Civilians who dared speak out on behalf of the union were hung from trees in East Texas, including accounts of women hung in front of their small children. (Wise County, Grayson and Denton Counties, October 1862) The southern papers exulted over the massacre of surrendering Northern soldiers at Fort Pillow, Tennessee and the "rivers of union blood", until Sherman threatened to treat surrendering confederate soldiers the same way. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is widely celebrated in the south, is known for shooting a free black man in the head when he found out that man was a servant to a union officer that had just been captured. The history of the confederates (as told in the history books and contemporaneous accounts, but not in the present day south) is one of stomach-turning atrocity after atrocity. They refused (and some still refuse) to accept the outcome of the war, and continued their reign of terror through the KKK, the Knights of the White Camelia, the Red Shirts, etc. As one author recounts: The case of the Allen Hill family living near Spring Hill, Texas, shows what could happen to people loyal to the United States. Allen C. hill was lynched as a Unionist in the Winter of 1863. In 1869 or 1870 his oldest son was killed. In 1872, his oldest daughter was hanged. The two other daughters were lynched. Then Hill's widow's home was burned, and she and her four remaining children fled. A posse rode them down and shot her and her two oldest daughters. Similar incidents fill thousands of pages of reports, and were unmatched on the union side. I stand by my analogy-the Confederate Flag is a blot of the landscape of America.