diver, were those books, papers, etc you read regarding the "cause" of the war to make the South look better possibly be a way to help heal the nation?
as has been said, there were many deaths on both sides - Confederates and Union. All were American deaths, despite what the c0cksucker Flog says.
LC Greenwood's memory of picking cotton doesn't hold any water with me. My grandmother was also out in the fields picking cotton - since my great grandparents weren't aware of their white privilege at that point in the early 1900s. Living on a farm and being surrounded by other people also clueless about their white privilege. ****, the family who lived behind my great grandparents' house was a black family. They had a little boy who achieved a lot in his lifetime. You may have heard of him - Alex Haley.
I do agree with your assessment that the powerful elites of the time were telling the country one thing, while harboring intent for another. It's not out of the realm of believability to consider that, either.
Just as technology was catching up to slavery and ending it with machinery, we're seeing the same thing in our lifetime. While Lincoln didnt want to end slavery, he 's in stark comparison to Biden who wants to end internal combustion engines. And his party is passing laws to do so. It's all playing out right in front of us, if we take a moment and look.
