Stonewall1982
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2010
- Location
- The Bluegrass State
If the union had thrown the Confederate Leadership into Gulags, Lee would have died in some Western land buried some field without veneration as he was. Gulags are not good for ones health many famed Confederates would have died and buried in open fields without fanfare, just loneliness. If the union had thrown them all in reeducation camps, maybe today we would not venerating confederates icons as we do....
That would have worked as well as the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It would have made Reconstruction much worse than it was, and then made martyrs out of all the dead Confederates.