Is it worth the battle?

[lotstodo]

It's because "American" history is Yankee liberal history. They spend maybe 15 minutes on the most destructive war in our country history, and teach that such a tragedy was caused by slavery.

 

[Madea]

It's because "American" history is Yankee liberal history. They spend maybe 15 minutes on the most destructive war in our country history, and teach that such a tragedy was caused by slavery.

I agree. My children know more about Martin Luther King than any other figure because he is discussed annually. Everything else is glossed over and revised.

 

[newsjunky]

It's because "American" history is Yankee liberal history. They spend maybe 15 minutes on the most destructive war in our country history, and teach that such a tragedy was caused by slavery.

Sad isn't it. I think a number of our kids just see the Rebel Flag as part of the history of the South and they love anything that has a Rebel label on it.

 

[lotstodo]

"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language."

“We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.”

“I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it.”

Do they discuss these Jefferson Davis quotes in American history? Does one student even know what he means?

 

[Madea]

Do they discuss these Jefferson Davis quotes in American history? Does one student even know what he means?

I'm not convinced my kids even know who Jefferson Davis is, however, and in that context, I'll answer that they probably think he was a proponent of slavery.

 

[Foxmeister]

The Stars and Bars was a battle flag; not the flag of the Confederacy. It appears though that many believe the opposite.

 

[lotstodo]

The Stars and Bars was a battle flag; not the flag of the Confederacy. It appears though that many believe the opposite.

I fly the original confederate naval ensign on my boat, which is basically the original Stars and Bars flag, and I haven't found but a handful of folks in 40 years who knew what it was.