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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 4415183, member: 76863"]I love it as well and find military history very fascinating especially the Civil War with how miss taught it generally is. People seem to always forget that Maryland was a slave state fighting for the Union and allowed to remain one after the war for a period, that Sherman would be spending life in Fort Leavenworth after being court-martialed if he was a general today etc. While tragic it is a fascinating war that completely reshaped the country not only by keeping it together but also redefining the federal vs states rights and the role of the central federal government. </p><p><br /></p><p>For those that do choose to morally judge past periods of history they should be aware that 150 years from now that society will be judging us in the exact same way. Every generation always feels they are morally superior to the past forgetting that one day they will be the past and future generations will be judging them poorly as well[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 4415183, member: 76863"]I love it as well and find military history very fascinating especially the Civil War with how miss taught it generally is. People seem to always forget that Maryland was a slave state fighting for the Union and allowed to remain one after the war for a period, that Sherman would be spending life in Fort Leavenworth after being court-martialed if he was a general today etc. While tragic it is a fascinating war that completely reshaped the country not only by keeping it together but also redefining the federal vs states rights and the role of the central federal government. For those that do choose to morally judge past periods of history they should be aware that 150 years from now that society will be judging us in the exact same way. Every generation always feels they are morally superior to the past forgetting that one day they will be the past and future generations will be judging them poorly as well[/QUOTE]
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