re: #194 HappyWarrior

Even ours sort of forgot to mention that secession began before Lincoln even took office. Virginia seceded after Lincoln was President and blamed his actions for that but wtf was he supposed to do after Fort Sumter was fired on? And as much as they try to portray Lee as noble for staying with his state, Virginia had plenty of unionists including some fine generals and even Stonewall Jackson’s sister.

Whenever the revisionists get going on all about they culchah an’ heyritage, I pull out this quote from Virginia-born Union General George “The Rock of Chickamauga” Thomas:

Efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism.