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Lets create a hypothetical situation. Say we all go back in time to when the US Civil War was starting. Ignoring where you currently live if you were going to join the war which side would you choose to fight on, based on your beliefs and what the two sides were fighting for? The Union or The Confederacy?
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Lets create a hypothetical situation. Say we all go back in time to when the US Civil War was starting. Ignoring where you currently live if you were going to join the war which side would you choose to fight on, based on your beliefs and what the two sides were fighting for? The Union or The Confederacy?
Optional: If you want tell us what political party you are part of.
Union (my ancestors fought for the Union with Grant and subsequently Sherman) definitely.
If the Federal government had remained as it was for the 75 years after the Civil War, I would be pleased with the US.
Given what I know now of the Obama admin and its unprecedented federal power grab, I understand the position of the Confederacy and its objection to an oppressive central government. The expansion of the federal government over the last several decades(particularly under the dictator Obama) are due to modern transgressions, not those of 150 years ago.
The Union was the morally wrong aggressor attacking the Confederacy which lawfully left the Union. So no way would I fight for the Union. The South had the ugly practice of slavery so I don't think I could fight for that except if I was Southern, I would have had to defend my family from attackers.
The Union was the morally wrong aggressor attacking the Confederacy which lawfully left the Union. So no way would I fight for the Union. The South had the ugly practice of slavery so I don't think I could fight for that except if I was Southern, I would have had to defend my family from attackers.
This. I would have sided with the South's right to secede, but I couldn't have supported its stance on slavery.
Neither. I would take my chances with the Indians and move west. or move north to Canada. Anywhere as far away as i could get, and I would take my family with me and everyone I know who would come along.
The civil war was more terrible than any other we have ever fought before or since. I just read a revealing book about about the horrors of that war:
Be warned. This book is not for the squeamish or faint hearted.
I'm neither, and some of the events disturbed me so much I couldn't sleep after reading them. I felt my face becoming pale when I read other parts.
Adams used letters, reports, journals, and other sources that were written during the war, and the horrors were not confined only to the battlefields. Civilians suffered just as much as the soldiers, and neither side escaped terrors and incredible damages of all kinds on either side.
Reading it will destroy whatever nostalgic and noble thoughts anyone has about that war forever. There are many real good reasons that Americans were never willing to repeat that war again. And though today's America is much different from what it was 150 years, ago, all the terror in the book could be repeated in our urban society just as easily as it was in yesterday's rural society. It would be even worse with our modern weapons.
This. I would have sided with the South's right to secede, but I couldn't have supported its stance on slavery.
cant have it both ways...
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