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Great Thread.
The South Raised the first black Regiments, New Orleans home quard. Native Americans served the South 2:1 to the North. The South was not anymore racist than the North. If Northern Generals listened to run-aways at Menassas/Bull Run, the North may have had a victory. We were a country divided......... Not a country of two different groups of people with different beliefs.
Georgia had areas that were strong Unionist, Just as the North had Copper heads.
IMHO slavery was ending, it was a matter of time. But the Change in political power and representation between a Industrial North and a agrarian South couldnot seem to be reconciled.
IMHO, The major the important factor of the North was President Lincoln, and major failure in the South was Jeff Davis. A good read is, "A Southerns View of the War" by Mr. William Pollard, he was the editor of the Richmond Journal during the war of Northern Aggression.
IF the North was really for Abolition/Civil rights............ why was the reconstruction/retribution period following the war so poorly administered? Also read the Surpreme Court decission on "Plessy Vs Ferguson" and "Brown Vs the Board of Education". I hope I have the titles rights, it has been a while.
On King David Hotel, the Stern Gang were terrorist. Personally I liked the Haganah. "AND" Yes the British Military did not plan well.
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