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The Confederacy lost the war in the West. “In the crucial theater of the war, the Confederacy did not have a competent commanding general.”
From 1789 to 1861, US presidents were Southerners—all of them slaveholders — for 49 of those 72 years. The only presidents to be re-elected in this period were slaveholders.
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“slavery was ordained by God and sanctioned by humanity.”
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“People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege and that was what Virginia fought for in the Civil War.”
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