Off Topic: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

[Smokin'Joe]

150th Anniversary of the Civil War!!!!!!!! Geeeeeze I must be getting old!!!!

BBB, I know the feeling. 50 years ago, on April 12th, 1961, I was in 8th grade in New Orleans. I organized a group of fellow students to wear Confederate Kepis (battle caps) and someone brought in a Confederate Battle Flag. The kepis cost 50 cents at the local Five & Dime.
Now I’m going to stir the pot a bit. It’s a fact that the South never surrendered. Sure Lee surrendered to Grant but that was the Army of Northern Virginia surrendering not the entire Confederate States of America. In fact the war continued after Lee’s surrender and was still going on after Lincoln’s death several days later. The reason there was never an Official Surrender is because the victorious North didn’t want one. To have the Confederacy surrender would mean that the North had in fact recognized that there had been an independent country called the Confederate States of America. The North contended that no such country had ever existed and the war was fought against a group of rogue states.

 

[Hardcase]

I suspect that, somewhere over in England, there are folks who still shake their heads in wonder at those impudent colonists.

One would be wise to be careful about judging past conflicts through modern eyes.