Reply #106: KKKarlton...you have it almost right [View All]

[surfermaw]

During the Civil War some of the wealthy did fight, my ancestor was fighting when he was 56 years of age and was killed in Sportslyvania Virginia, he was a wealthy man with many slaves,in many cases they paid the poor wihites to fight in their place, at one time many of the poor men went AWOL, I had one ancestor that did that,but came back to fight and was captured at the very last and released, but in most cases especially in Georgia, most of the white southerners suported the flag and held it dear, because General Sherman and his troopes destroyed Atlanta and surrounding counties, and then the Carpetbaggers did the rest. Most of these people don't honor this flag because of race, however the republicans have capotalized on Abortion, R/R and Race....