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And throughout the battle fields you could hear the Union soldiers screaming 'Lets go men, so we can free all those black slaves' as they charged 12 pounders.


Just as you could hear the CSA boys screaming 'They may take our lives, but they will never take our slaves'


That sounds about right.


Egad! Other than generally belittling that photo of actual combat veterans shaking hands over the stone wall where like 50 years before Pickett's Charge had ground to a bloody halt and foundered, have you been following this thread at all?


"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744