thorn69

Down South, Lincoln is not well liked at all, nor was Grant. Depending if you believe in States rights or not - Lincoln was wrong and Grant was a war criminal. Thank God, Sherman was never a President! His actions in the South definitely equate to war crimes! (Burning down entire towns and cities and encouraging the raping and pillaging of your enemy IS a war crime)

You also have to consider that history has been rewritten to make some of these folks seem like national heroes. Lincoln is thought to be the man that ended slavery and racial discrimination in the US. This is far from the truth however. He didn't value blacks as ever being equals to whites at all. He even had slaves working for him throughout his entire life. He freed the slaves in the South during a time he had no control over the South. The South was a separate country at that time. His actions to free the slaves weren't based on compassion or even one of human equality. They were based on stirring up trouble for the South and to get blacks in the South to rise up against wealthy Southerners. Foolishly, many blacks and whites thought and still think it was about some rich white guy in power caring about blacks. How simple minded people are!

The Civil war was started because of Lincolns tyrannical rule and taxing system - NOT SLAVERY as is taught in many school systems these days. He tried to tax the hell out of rich Southern plantation owners and aimed a tax directly at them. it wasn't going to effect rich Northerners like himself and his family. When the South refused to pay this unfair tax, they united and agreed to secede from the Union. When told of this, Lincoln was quoted as having said, "Now who am I going to tax?"

If you watch the movie "Glory", based on the life of Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts regiment, you will clearly see that northerners didn't value blacks as their equals. When the 54th was founded, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (a white man) was placed in command of an ALL black regiment. However, when it came time to pay his troops at the end of the month, his troops were only given 1/2 the pay of a white troop. All northern black troops petitioned this DISCRIMINATION to Congress and were eventually back-paid in full AFTER the war was over - considering of course they lived through it.

People should realize that when you win a war you get the advantage of talking bad about your enemy and making them look as evil as Satan himself. After all, they lost. You get the advantage of rewriting history because people tend to side with the victor. Nobody likes to hang with the losing side. Look at how we bash Nazi Germany today. Imagine if the Nazis had won. What would your history book tell you then? Of course you'd believe it because you'd be brainwashed that any other opinion that differed from your own was wrong, anybody who opposed you was a racist, etc etc etc. Just think, YOU'D be the biggest, proudest, Nazi in the world right now!

That's how history works folks! It's filled with a bunch of untruths and personal bias. It's the fact that we'd rather side ourselves with the victor instead of the loser and that's exactly what makes us a bunch of sheeple willing to listen and obey anything we're told.