Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know
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A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the “skipped history” of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. For me, the emerging revisionist account of the conflict is personal. I have discovered the story of a great-great-grandfather who was threatened with hanging as a “damned old Lincolnite” by his neighbors in the Alabama mountains.
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@Coctaanatis and we’re still suffering for that omission aren’t we. So many believe a false narrative and refuse truth when it’s presented. It’s a good thing that these stories get passed around, will hopefully make a dent at least.