You Lost - Get Over It
Why in the heck anyone would be proud to be of Confederate ancestory boggles the mind. But it appears in Florida we're having a rash of controversy over the old Confederate Navy Jack flag or the Southern Cross. (The Confederacy had a slew of flags and the one most seen today is the Navy Jack, not The Stars and Bars.) First they want a commerative
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The South didn't secede in response to Lincoln freeing the slaves. But that quote about him not freeing the slaves if it would save the Union usually gets clipped because he concludes that it would be his preference to free them.
The Emancipation Proclamation was politically brilliant in my opinion. Since it didn't free any of the slaves in the Union controlled territory, it could be clearly sold to the border states on military ends. If he'd tried to free the slaves in the border states forcibly, they would've probably seceded also and the North wasn't exactly sitting pretty militarily at the time. It cut off diplomatic support to the South from Britain because Britain knew that any future advances would be freeing more slaves. That same detail started to transform the Union Army because they knew that they were also fighting to free slaves and were faced with the choice of fighting for something that they didn't believe in or starting to believe in it.
The South was in favor of states' rights.
As long as they favored the institution of slavery and its further expansion, such as into Kansas.
But the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was a blatant (at that time) intrusion into states' rights and they loved that. And northern states, which had been staunch federalists, turned states' rights-ists and started passing nullification laws.
The South was definitely fighting to preserve the institution of slavery. Or at least that's what a great many of them believed and said at the time.
I can see how an accurate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest would be illuminating for someone to read. But I doubt that's what they want. There are more memorials to Forrest than any other Confederate general. The Confederate memorials have been way out of hand. There's a memorial in Montana for its Confederate losses.
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