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 Posted: Fri May 16th, 2008 03:48 pm
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 Well Ed, just how do you define a Confederate? Just because Booth never served in the government nor the military doesn't mean he didn't consider himself a Confederate. And just how does being a "sympathizer" divorce one from the cause?

Booth, according to his sister, Asia, once burst out "So help me holy God! my soul, life, and possessions are for the South." Asia asked him if that was true, why didn't he fight? Booth replied "I have only one arm to give," he replied, "my brains are worth twenty men, my money worth an [sic] hundred. I have free pass everywhere, my profession, my name, is my passport." Booth worked for the Confederacy spying and running quinine South. Asia remarked "I knew that he was today what he had been since childhood, an ardent lover of the South and her policy, an upholder of Southern principles. He was a man so single in his devotion, so unswerving in his principles, that he would yield everything for the cause he espoused."

Like it or not, Ed, he was a Confederate.

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Rob