"(Furthermore, weren't you wrong about whose corps you were talking about anyway?)"

I admitted my error and acknowledged the one that pointed it out. It was a mistake. I should have caught my fingers before they landed on the keys. Ewell wasn't a corps commander at the time.

"If someone provided a quote from, say Edwin Stanton, that Robert E. Lee regularly beat his slaves, I'd like to know how Stanton would come about that information and I would point out that Stanton opposed (and I believe disliked) Lee."

Robert E Lee freed the slaves that he inherited from his father in law.

Stonewall Jackson taught black children to read in Lexington. A practice that was legally forbidden.

I am just tired of hearing a blanket condemnation of the South or more accurately the Confederacy being a racist and white supremist society.

I'm done Craig. Don't reply to this post expecting a response.

Keith