the winners get to write the history and it is one
sided.
slavery was such a small part that if there was no
other reasons the war would not have been fought.
hear is one for you. robert e. lee had slaves and
freed them, u.s. grant had slaves and kept them until
the amendment to the constitution force him to free
them. a newspaper interview quoted him as saying "good
help is so hard to find."
  there is lots of history that did not get into the
history books at school, but, if you dig, you can find
books by southern historians. whole different slant on
things.

--- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
>   I was just making a funny. To be honest the Civil
> War and the Confederacy
> are history - you don't wipe out history. To this
> day we have Civil War
> re-enactments, Civil War Monuments, National Parks
> made out of the
> battlefields. This is a huge part of US history, and
> it should be remembered
> - boths sides. While thru the years - its hallmark
> has been ending slavery -
> the I believe was it based on economics - ending
> slavery was a small part. I
> think they are crazy to want to destroy that
> mountain art piece - it is an
> art piece, it represents history. I know here in
> Alexandria - in the center
> of town - we have a Confederate Soldier Statue and
> memeriol. I hear
> rumblings about removing him! I get upset - it
> honors the soldiers - they
> died - they deserve to be remembered. History
> immotalizes the victors but
> the vanqished have the same story. They were they
> brave, they died for their
> beliefs, and they are someone's father. brother,
> son, mother, daughter,
> sister, they can also be remembered because but for
> a twist of fate - they
> would be the victors.
>
>                   OOOPPPPPS - sorry I got long -
> Trisha
>
>
> > actually the confederate flag was dunped a couple
> of
> > years ago in a midnight session of the
> legislature.
> > lots of complaints.  the new governor wanted to go
> > back, let the people vote. i think he knew the
> > majority would go back to the pre-1956 flag that
> had
> > no confederate battle flag as part of it. it was
> not
> > anti confederate since the klan and other groups
> had
> > wheyleighed the flag for their purposes.
> > once it was voted on then the issue hopefully
> would be
> > put to bed altogether.
> >
> > if you want anti confederate, there is a group
> that
> > wants to take the conferate memorial off of stone
> > mountain.
> >
> >
> > --- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Probably caused by all the confederate soldiers
> > > rolling over in their graves
> > > - as Georgia is the state dropping the
> confederate
> > > flag - Righ?
> > >
> > >                                    Trisha
> > >
> > >
> > > > the earthquake was 4.5. hey, maybe georgia
> will
> > > fall
> > > > in the atlantic before california falls into
> the
> > > > pacific.
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