re: Robert e lee day

This is why I tend to mostly to post on well moderated military forums. Post BS, you get banned.

The War was not over slavery. For fricks sake how you gonna say we gonna Free the Jimmies from bondage but - forcibly conscript White Men and levy income taxes and seize or nationalize every fricking thing under the sun North of Richmond, VA. It's irreconcilable.

No Billy Yank fought to free a slave. Read their papers - Yanks were deeply offended by the notion. Riots and such were the order of the day in Northern Cities after Antietam.

The emphasis is always put on Johnny Reb fighting for slavery, nobody ever cares a damn to find someone fighting against.

And, Sherman didn't do total war in the South. That's another lie. Sherman was well regarded in The South after the war and did many a lecture. Ask The Corndogs about the cannon on their University.

Sherman burning The South is Yankee propaganda turned about by "The Lost Cause" myth Southetners post 1930's.

Virginia did not secede nor Lee until Seward offered Lee command of The Accursed Union Army - VA did not secede until they were asked to raise regiments against her own people.

In the words of Thomas J. Jackson, "tell Lincoln we have done so."