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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3444644, member: 86305&quot;]Right answer and probably the right perspective.&nbsp; I had over 300 relatives who were in the CSA that I can document and there were probably others.&nbsp; What is often overlooked is Congress eventually recognized all the soldiers on both sides as US veterans.&nbsp; Most in the South fought because they were drafted or out of a sense of loyalty to their State.&nbsp; We tend to forget that the US was less than 100 years old and State&#039;s rights superseded Federal rights on a number of fronts.&nbsp; It was not a foregone conclusion that our Country would make it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw it summed up once this way and it helps bring it into perspective.&nbsp; Prior to the war the term for our Country was &quot;These United States.&quot;&nbsp; After the war the term was &quot;The United States.&quot;&nbsp; It took the Civil War to change a number of things, and decades after that to make things work.</p><p><br /></p><p>My family lost a number of relatives in the Battle of Atlanta and I look on the monument as a tribute to them.&nbsp; I study the coin because it is really interesting and most stories around it just make you scratch your head in disbelief.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Our history is our history and it is often filled with missteps.&nbsp; But then that is true of every country on earth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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