ConfederateGray
Cadet
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2011
- Location
- Texas
I read one book about a Confederate a long time ago, I can't really remember what it was called now, this was like 20 years ago, I think it had an interesting take on this.
The ex-soldier was speaking of another rebel who during the war was especially brutal and hate filled toward Union soldiers. He never wanted to take any prisoner and often killed helpless, wounded Yankees on the battlefields. Years later the writer walked into a bar to see the same rebel talking with two Union soldiers in uniform in a very friendly and easy manner. Shocked he pulled him to the side and asked him how he changed so much.
"Well, as I was heading home at the end of the war another Confederate was sitting on the side of the road and asked if I had any bacon. When I replied that I did he told me, "Well use it to grease yourself up 'cus we gotta slide right back into the Union.""
The ex-soldier was speaking of another rebel who during the war was especially brutal and hate filled toward Union soldiers. He never wanted to take any prisoner and often killed helpless, wounded Yankees on the battlefields. Years later the writer walked into a bar to see the same rebel talking with two Union soldiers in uniform in a very friendly and easy manner. Shocked he pulled him to the side and asked him how he changed so much.
"Well, as I was heading home at the end of the war another Confederate was sitting on the side of the road and asked if I had any bacon. When I replied that I did he told me, "Well use it to grease yourself up 'cus we gotta slide right back into the Union.""
