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 Posted: Fri Dec 28th, 2012 12:14 am
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 BHR62, growing up in California I had no ties to the North or South.  As time passed and my family roots were uncovered I discovered my Southern History as it were.  My fathers side is from the South while my mothers is from the North.  Both families go way back and have connections with the not only leaders of both sides of the war but go back to the very beginning of this nation when we were just settlements sponsored by the English.
 
My feelings about the Civil War come not from my family history in Tennessee nor its roots in Ohio and Kentucky, it comes from what I have learned about the motives of those who backed the leaders of the nation back then.  Don’t get me wrong, I believe the ending of the war was the best thing for this nation.  I just don’t believe people in general know the real story behind the war.  TexasDefender makes some good arguments and statements, but I really don’t see anything in what he as said that I couldn’t find in one of my HS text books.  Life is just not that simple and people are not that noble.  My desire and intent in starting this discussion is to encourage participants to think deeper than just what they have been told.  Personally, I think Sherman did what he thought was best and his campaign to get approval shows that it was his plan and not a mission given to him by his superiors.  But in his own words “I did not order the burning of Mobile but I also did not try and stop it” tells me that he is not the saint many think he was.  Same goes for his treatment of South Carolina.  To punish South Carolina when the controlling group was from and still in Virginia is was just wrong.  The underlying causes of the war run a lot deeper than that.
 
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