• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Lee almost took it too, he didn’t want to secede but he felt like he was betraying his fellow statesmen in Virginia. People forget that before the civil war people didn’t think of themselves as Americans, they thought of themselves as citizens of whatever state they were from.

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      9 months ago

      From what I’ve read, before the War people said “…the United States are…” and after they changed it to “…the United States IS…”

      Also, I like the stories that the British had agents who privately encouraged the South to fight the North in order to keep America weak. Putin didn’t invent anything new