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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (100083)	2/12/2005 7:28:44 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793877

Amid a great extinction of nations, in an era where whole peoples seem to hold their lives cheap, what can we learn from these events? Oh, the war was about slavery, all right. The slaughter was marching men in closed ranks into frontal attacks against cannon and rifle fire. Stonewall pulled off the best flank attack of the war. Grant was a butcher. Military history is full of generals who used the last war's tactics against the new war's technology. I just finished an "alternate history" where the south had won the first war in 1862, and was fighting a second war in 1881. Old Abe was a disgraced ex-president who became a socialist. Custer made the same mistake, but this time against British invading from Canada, and TR saved his bacon, along with the gatling guns that were brought up in time. Stonewall won the war this time at Louisville.