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 Posted: Sat Sep 8th, 2007 01:40 am
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 That's essentially the way I read it, David. Johnny Reb may well have been fighting to protect his hearth and home, but it wasn't necessarily against Yankee invasion. No doubt many figured that, as long as they had to pick a side, it would be the one their families were on. We might never know conclusively how many bought into the idea that blacks wanted their wives and daughters, or that Yankee victory intended to reward freed slaves with said femailes, but with all the stuff being thrown against the wall, you've got to figure some of it stuck.

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