Don,

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Bob, is it not true that the issue of slavery was never thrown out on the table by Lincoln until the third year of the War?



I honestly don’t know. I’m definitely NOT a Civil War scholar.

I only have two hard and fast opinions on the Civil War.

1. Slavery was an abomination and HAD to be stopped.
2. After the “Yankees” gained the upper hand toward the end of the war, they became nothing more than thugs as they raped, pillaged and murdered their way across the south.

I think it's sad that most Americans think that everyone in the Confederacy had slaves and were repugnant. The vast majority of the Confederates were just people trying to protect their homes and families from the invasion from the north.

Bob
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