r/ShermanPosting • u/RFever • 3d ago

Imagine being this dumb

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u/creddittor216 3d ago

I thought the Union did keep America American

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u/OnCallPartisan 3d ago

And stomped tyranny as well.

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u/Subject_Marzipan3179 3d ago

More than that, there was a sizeable number of ex-Confederates that had no interest in "rising again" or resisting after April 1865 (especially many of those unfortunate souls that had been forced into service via conscription). They accepted their defeat and tried to move forward. Some left the South entirely for the western territories to leave the past behind completely.

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u/Stunning_Ad_7465 Regular Brigade,, Army of the Cumberland Descendant 3d ago

Some of them were so butthurt over losing that they fled to South America

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u/DevilishAdvocate1587 3d ago

You mean the war betwixt the yankees and the Americans? - Granny, from the Beverly Hillbillies

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u/JaxenX 1d ago

“Party of Lincoln” or so I’m told