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Some Thoughts.....
'' If we were wrong in our contest, then the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was a grave mistake and the revolution to which it led was a crime. If Washington was a patriot; Lee cannot have been a rebel.'' General Wade Hampton, CSA
'' I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union...Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.'' General Robert E. Lee
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right or wrong, nothing was "preserved". A union requires voluntary membership.
