Matt Bors for July 02, 2015

Not a rhetorical question: Are there Black people in the South who celebrate the Confederate Flag with pride as part of their southern heritage?

I haven’t seen reports of any except for the one lady flagger who seems kind of unbalanced, to say the least.

Maybe some of the so-called ‘conservatives’ can provide some links.

No, their other demand was that the North allow the South to institute a Jim Crow system that often wasn’t much better than slavery. As I have said before, everyone interested in US history should read “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas Blackmon.

Actually, when Grant accepted Lee’s surrender, his terms were so generous that Lee was Amazed.Earlier in the war, Grant demanded Unconditional Surrender because otherwise, Southern Troops could run off and join Other Units of the Confederate army. Once the War was Over, he believed that Gracious Acceptance and Generous Terms of surrender would help prevent the war from flaring back up in a year or two..

To be precise, Grant was known as “Unconditional Surrender” Grant quite accurately. He did demand unconditional surrender of Lee’s troops, but then gave them back their horses (because unlike the Union Army, the Confederate Cavalry used their own and needed them to plow) and was generally kind to them in defeat.And Lincoln dictated the terms of surrender. Late in the war some Confederates actually tried to negotiate terms, but their terms assumed recognition of the Confederacy after they were sure to lose. Lincoln sent them on their way, but their chutzpah lives on in the Lost Cause mythologists of today…