On Jun 29, 2:38 pm, Mike Stone <mwst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 9:42=EF=BF=BDam, Ulysses at Olympus Mons
<davidholi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>
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> > Please know that the War killed off the finest and most courageous
> > sons
> > and daughters of the Confederacy. =EF=BF=BDWhat was left in the era of
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ost-
> > Lincoln
> > Reconstruction were the white officials and leaders who were
> > sycophant,
> > lazy, corrupt, cowardly and selfish.
>
> Surely a teeny bit of an exaggeration.
>
> ACW casualties were indeed high, but far outnumbered by survivors.
> Postwar Southern governors included names like Wade Hampton, John B
> Gordon and Zebulon Vance. Lucius QC Lamar became a Senator and later
> Supreme Court Justice. Alexander H Stephens was in the HoR for a
> decade, and the list could no doubt be greatly extended. Iirc, when
> the Democrats regained the Senate in 1879, Republicans complained that
> every Committee charmanshp was held by a Rebel Brigadier.
>
> Nor is there any reason to suppose that things were much different at
> lower levels. As far as I can see, the men who ran the South after the
> War (and certainly once Reconstruction had been disposed of) were
> pretty much the same men who ran it before, or the sons and younger
> brothers of those who fell. In fact, the Southern =EF=BF=BDlite seems to
h=
ave
> survived the ACW about as well as the British ruling class survived
> WW1. In both cases, the class concened tended to lose its grip over
> the next generation or two, but there is little evidence that war
> casualties were the main reason for this.
>
> --
>
> Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
>
> Q) In the Roman Civil Wars, why did all the bachelors fight for
> Sulla?
>
> A) Because they weren't the Marian kind.
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Mr. Speer corrected my erroneous conclusion that the G.A.R. and the
U.C.V. had amalgamated prior to the dwindling of the ranks of the ACW
veterans.
Mr. Stone is only partially correct. The 20,000 die-hards who refused
to pledge
allegiance to the Union went into exile in Central and South America.
One consequence of this is the ubiquitous display of the Stars & Bars
in
Brazil whose King never required the Confederados to take an oath of
fealty.
Cheers, David H
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