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br> -- Ed Morrow /p> p> All one has to do is go to Gettysburg, stand on Cemetery Ridge and look down on the mile long uphill path taken by Pickett's Charge to realize that ol' Marse Robert was no only a traitor, but a rather poor general also. br> -- Tom McGonnell br> Alexandria, Virginia /p>

I am among the millions who are sick and tired of hearing about the nobility of the Southern rebels and the nobility of the cause for which they fought. The Civil War is a perfect example of a "Rich man's war but a poor man's fight." The upper class of the South convinced the ignorant farm boys that the farm boys were fighting a noble battle for their rights -- except the "their rights" referred to the slaveholders' wealth and power, not the farm boys' rights to a political society based on Calhoun's theory of the Concurrent Majority.

p>The bottom line on Lee, Jackson, Davis, and all the rest is that each of them was a traitor, pure and simple. Each of them owed much to the Union; each of them had taken an oath, of one kind or another, to support and defend that br> Union; and each of them, Lee included, was an oath-breaker. /p> p>Did we celebrate the birthday of Lee and of Jackson? Is Mr. Crocker kidding? br> -- James F. Csank

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