The Confederacy was About Slavery

it is never a valid excuse for bad behavior.For that we all bear our own responsibility.

As a kid, I remember this "letters to the editor" battle about the "lost cause" ,"states rights" , and other code words .

he so obviously knows nothing about the subject

The North fought the war to preserve the Union.

My ancestors couldn't possibly have been so evil as to fight for slavery

Meanwhile, they don't want to share their water fountains.

Why did they have slavery, because that was what they were fighting for, not slavery itself .

Why did they have slavery, because that was what they were fighting for, not slavery itself .

He conscripted right along according to a schedule, from 1801 onward--but he simply organized it, it had been in effect since 1794.

By the way, idiot, the "poor people" of the South to whom you refer fought because Jefferson Davis instituted conscription, with the grudging consent of the Confederate States Congress. In fact, the Confederate States instituted conscription before it was introduced in the United States. Once again, you demonstrate your profound ignorance of history.

Shenandoah, CSS an iron-framed full-rigged ship with auxiliary steam power and teak planking. The Confederate government bought it from the British in 1864 and converted it to a ship-of-war in the waters off Madeira. The Shenandoah was assigned to disrupt commerce in areas not directly affected by the Civil War, and was very successful, pursuing merchant ships along the Cape of Good Hope—Australia route and the whaling fleet in the Pacific. Learning of the Confederate surrender on June 23 , 1865, commanding officer James I. Waddell chose to continue hostile activities, and went on to capture additional prizes, the last eleven of those taken near the Arctic Circle in a period of only seven hours.
The CSS Shenandoah was at sea for an entire year, traveled 58,000 miles, and captured a total of thirty-eight Union ships. Two thirds of that number were captured after the Civil War had ended.

How to cite this entry:
"Shenandoah, CSS" The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. Berkley Books, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.

As ugly as it is, i think it is germane to post Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden." He wrote it addressing the Americans, upon their victory in the Spanish War, with particular reference to the conquest of the Philippine Islands.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No iron rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden,
And reap his old reward--
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness.
By all ye will or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.

Take up the White Man's burden!
Have done with childish days--
The lightly-proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise:
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.

The arrogance and hubris is appalling, no?

Hey A2Kers-who-are-not -slavery-deniers,

I think it may be that the APA needs to look into adding a new disorder into the DSM.

I'm serious. Look at the impenetrable dissonance; the venomous acrimony...

I think that for some, the exquisite pain of waking up, day in and day out, in a world that has a black man as POTUS and a black family living in the White House, has actually caused emotional dysfunction in some of our dear brethern.

Maybe they could call it Obama Adjustment Disorder.