In a message dated 2/8/2002 10:24:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>  If the Civil War was really about slavery and civil rights
>  (which has always been my opinion), then why did the North make the
>  reconstruction about economic retribution
I've lived in Virginia almost seventy years with southern forebears. Although
the South has many enthusiasts for the "soldiers of the lost cause," it is my
opinion the "damnyankee" came not from the war, but from the period of
Reconstruction, a somewhat unknown era of American history.
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Richard E. Dixon
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