General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**How Americans, from both the North and the South, tell the story of the Civil War.
MSNBC, coming up.
Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)Wow. Damn.
Then he goes on to say that the "war to prevent southern independence" was worse for people than slavery. A far bigger injustice.
Double damn.
I don't even know what to do with that.
adding to the list of misery we/I'm living with.
Stinky The Clown
(67,856 posts). . . . . we took two boat rides to Ft. Sumpter. The first was on a boat operated by the National Park Service. They were telling us about the Civil War. That boat was the ferry to the fort.
The next day we did a harbor tour (cuz I was home-ported there when I was in the Navy). That boat was a private tour operator. The narrator regaled us with their view of the War of Northern Aggression.
misanthrope
(7,441 posts)The problem with Reconstruction was that the U.S. couldn't think of a way to replace a substantial portion of Southern culture. It was the soil that successfully cultivated the problems we currently battle.
Wounded Bear
(58,829 posts)Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)roamer65
(36,749 posts)In 1865, it became a federation when Grant told Lee Sir, you have only one president now. after Lee mentioned consulting Davis.
Reconstruction should have lasted well into the 1900s, IMO.
lark
(23,237 posts)It was the reason the southerners seceded and the reason the northerners almost killed the south for the profits of their rich folks. It's always the poor and working class that suffer on both sides.
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