Terry, Andy and I often disagree but since I've been here following his posts and reading his stuff I can say without reservation that he is a first class historian with an penchant for accuracy regardless of whose ox gets gored. He is not anti-Confederate per se but demands from others the same thing he strives to achieve, historical accuracy. My advice is to stay, read and learn and to tone down the rhetoric a tad. You'll enjoy it better.
CMWinkler, I too have followed Andy's post, both here, and on his "Dead Confederates" blog. If you think Andy's evidence is conclusive of true history, then you AND Andy needs a lesson on admissible evidence.
My words are not meant to be rhetoric or inflammatory. Inadmissible evidence must be challenged for what it is - false. Southerners can no longer allow Union sympathizers, or book writer/historians want-to-be, to write their false version of southern history with impunity. For the past 150 years, too many southerners have been brainwashed with the northern version of the War for Southern Independence.
I cannot accept words on a blog or images from a second or third source, such as Andy's links contain, as evidence of truth. I believe Andy knows his evidence is false and inadmissible. As such, I believe he only posted here to inflame the southern reader, and defame the Confederate solders’ good name. Andy is gloating over the fact that someone must have been mad. Andy exact quote, “Geez. Sounds like they were mad, huh?”
What people call American History is really Yankee history written by New Englanders glorifying the North. To the victor goes the spoils. The Victor in the war for Southern Independence was the North. They claimed the right to force their point of view of the war on all Americans.
To do this the North in the past 150 years, used persecution, destruction, theft of personal property, kidnapping, rapine and murder of southern women, and a total disregard for the Constitution. They created a very powerful myth, and a huge centralized government bureaucracy that has completely destroyed democracy and freedom in America.
The myth that the Yankee invader used and still uses to justify their invasion of the South was to free the slaves. A bold face lie. Southern history taught in all the schools, then and now, is just a recitation of the North's justification for invasion. Northern history taught in Southern schools has the Southern children, calling the Northern invaders saviors and the Southern defenders traitors.
President Jefferson Davis predicted if the North won the war they would re-write history to cover up all their crimes. He was right!
In my opinion Andy Hall falls squarely within that category, and his latest post is just another example of defaming the South and the Confederate soldier. My honor and my memory of my fifteen (15) Confederate ancestors, none of which ever owned a slave, will allow it to continue.