1/5The enemies of history are catching on that in the North, the War was often told accurately (they say from the southern perspective). The reason for this is the fact that the North was wrong & the world's leading historians proved it.
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2/5Northern editorials, especially, prior to Sumter, often pointed out the legality of secession & negative comments about free Blacks. Here is the Albany Atlas & Argus from 3/5/1861 as an example. Did this sentiment magically disappear after the war?
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3/5One of the very first war monuments to the Union was in Indiana (1862).Bohan argues Confederates whitewashed history but notice Union monuments (which preceded Southern ones) don't mention slavery at all! It wasn't hard to convince the North this wasn't what the war was about!
4/5 My feed is packed with Northern Pulitzer prize winning historians: James F. Rhodes, Ed Channing, Samuel E. Morison, all of them wrote things that would be called "lost cause mythology." They were the leading intellectuals of their day. I assure you, they were not brainwashed.
5/5The real issue is that once the bitterness of war settled, the legality of the war could not be defended. The world agreed that the end of #Slavery was a blessing but the violations of the law were abhorrent. Notice "historians" won't touch the law?
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