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Re: Charleston's View -- January 1865

A question which may be fairly raised would be how representative are the men being quoted. We can be fairly certain that those who self-identified as having slave-holding interests came from the class that owned twenty or more slaves. On the other hand, we have Robert E. Lee, who never owned a slave, and didn't have experience managing slaves on a plantation until after the death of his father-in-law in 1857. For that matter, Robert E. Lee, who never owned a home. Lee, Jackson and even Forrest seem to have moderate or even liberal on issues involving slavery and race, open to having black men serve in their armies.

For a moment, consider that William T. Sherman wanted nothing to do with U.S.C.T. units and did not allow them in his army in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Back to the slave-holding classes, the typical slaveholder in Alabama in 1860 owned seven slaves. Another perspective, half of all households that included slaves counted from one to seven slaves. That's not exactly Tara or Twelve Oaks. As William C. Oates stated, "the great majority of the men in the ranks, those who handled the muskets and did the killing, were not of that class."

I hesitate to quote this disabled Confederate veteran further because of the impact his words have on some people. Right now I may hold on to further quotes as a 'nuclear option.'

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