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Aren't these supercilious moral absolutist in-your-face presentist
attitudes that completely miss the point of the post a brilliant
depiction of just why folks get to the point where they fight wars in
the first place?
Lyle Browning, RPA
On Jun 17, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Paul Heinegg wrote:
> Rick Paddock wrote, "The Civil War devastated families, and my
> ancestors in Henderson CO, TN, were not spared. One of them was a
> woman of means before the War but destitute during and after. One
> of her brothers was killed in fighting in Georgia. The family had
> hardly assimilated this news when word came that another brother
> lay languishing in a primitive field hospital in Vicksburg.
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> Gritty and determined, she gathered provisions, a feather mattress,
> her
> grandmother's quilt, and put them into a wagon. All the horses on
> her farm
> had been commandeered earlier by General Forrest, leaving her with
> one mule
> and a cow to pull her wagon. But that didn't stop her. She enlisted an
> elderly member of the the freedmen who had stayed on out of loyalty
> and
> served as houseman, and set off for Vicksburg, some 500 miles to the
> south-to bring her brother home."
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> Do I understand you to say that this "gritty and determined"
> woman's family did not free any of their slaves but instead fought
> a war to maintain slavery, and we are supposed to feel sorry for
> her that she faced such a hard time without the slaves and the
> horses commandered by the millionaire slave-trader Nathan Forrest?
> Paul
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