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Civil War... "Setting the Record Straight" VIII
L/D... America has been taught a very distorted and politically correct version of history... this eighth in a series of short clips seeks to set the record straight.
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The Confederacy was BASED on slavery - its own leaders said. Not just based on slavery - but based on spreading the "great moral truth: of slavery "throughout the civilized world"".
Sadly we are not taught anything about the extremism of the Nazi like south. But if you read their OWN words and their OWN Declarations of Secession - you can learn a lot.
The north deliberately starved our soldiers. THEY refused to ransom for their own while maintaining a blockade which denies the Confederacy ample medicinal supplies.
The fault is with you, not us. We carried ourselves accordingly and you executed Major Wirz and others to cover up for your own ruthlessness.
I probably wouldn't care if you weren't such hypocrites about it.
2. Some where not fed for trying to escape or insubordination and if they wanted to eat and they were around other prisoners i'm sure they ate .Also there is a war going on why wouldn't we blockade the south ? Should we have allowed them at that time free trade with the world so that they could finance there rebellion and inflict more death and destruction upon our great nation use some common sense .
3. The South wanted it that way and they got it!
Don't talk about starving prisoners who you could have saved, who we had not the means to properly treat. Instead acknowledge that we did the best we could.
You'll get nowhere trying to condemn us, as your prison camp officers deliberately starved our soldiers.
In war, terrible things happen, but we are not uniquely guilty. In contrast, we fought as honorably as could be desired from any belligerent.