This discussion is fascinating, not only for its facts but for the opinions and emotions still exhibited after so many decades. That's the hardest thing about history. It's all interpreted from someone's personal point of view, and the truth lies somewhere in the midst of all of them.
As a Virginian, born and bred, I was raised to think only positively of the Confederacy. Both sides of my family were supporters of (and soldiers for) the South. My maternal grandmother was very bitter about the "Yankees" and the difficulties her family faced in post-Civil-War Virginia. However, she never had a negative word to say about Lincoln. Growing up in Richmond, I learned a great deal of good about our 16th president in school and learned that Jefferson Davis was the leader of the Confederate States but was not much else. Lee was the heroic figure.
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Gregg Kimball <[log in to unmask]>
> My point was that both struggled with very difficult problems of
> internal dissent and both reacted in fundamentally the same way, given
> the lack of legal tools and institutions to deal with it.
>
> However, I think your selling Jefferson Davis's popularity short. There
> is a substantial statue here in Richmond on a street known as Monument
> Avenue (perhaps you've seen it?), a major north-south highway named
> after him, and numerous museums and historic sites across the United
> States that honor him, and I'm sure that's not the half of it.
>
> Gregg Kimball
>
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> I don't see any giant marble monuments in the nation's capital to Jeff
> Davis, nor do I see him popularly held to be one of America's greatest
> leaders. I personally rank Lincoln's performance right up there with
> Hiram Grant, Cal Coolidge, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
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