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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (48968)	4/18/2005 12:56:19 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 59480

Great story! My Dad grew up near that battlefield depicted in the movie "Glory." He had a couple of miniballs that he found himself. He never argued about the Civil War and never called it the War of Northern Aggression.

To: JDN who wrote (48968)	4/18/2005 2:36:04 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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