Rebel Yell

Hear me my legion.
I spent a little time in Corinth Mississippi last week and was able to
see some of the sights around town. For those that don't know, like
myself before I went, Corinth held strategic value during the Cival
War. It was a cross roads where the north-south & east-west railroads
met. These rail ways were the backbone of the confederate supply lines.
As I toured the historic sights around town I was reminded of the
common misunderstanding about the cival war, that it was started over
slavery. This is in fact a distortion. The war was about states
rights. Could the federal governmant tell individual states what they
could and could not do? Yes slavery was abolished because of the war,
and thank goodness it was, but that was only a consequence of the war
not a cause for it. The majority of northern citizens didn't even care
about slavery one way or the other in 1861.

I bring this up because as I was walking these historic battle grounds
I found myself reflecting on how similar the circumstances are today
to back then. No I don't think we're near any kind of cival war but I
do feel that a lot of people out there are tired of the over intrusion
of the federal government in their lives. I sincerly think that we are
on a slippery slope that could lead to a country that we neither
recognize nor care to live in.

It wasn't till 1957, I believe, that confederate soldiers were given
full U.S. Military rights and recognition. By then they were all dead.
Up until that time they were traitors & rebels. Imagine that, the
federal governmant finally acknowledged that those trailors & rebels
were legitimate soldiers fighting for their rights.