As with all "govermental" or "national" organizations it seems to be a "rob peter to pay paul" type of fund. In this case, Give me your money so that I can spread a lie. I've adopted a policy of not giving to these "National Funds" or charities no matter what the cause. My dollars can be put to better use locally where I can be more positive as to what exactly I am donating to.

As we find out from previous news stories it would seem that southern are more interested in preserving the War than the northerners are. So I would imagine that southerners are the ones who donate the most to these types of preservation projects. If so why doesn't OUR story get told? In true of the matter I am in fact only asking for a Fair evaluation of the facts of the war.

If you take away the slavery issue then the north has NO argument that support their actions. Did the patriots of 1776 fight to preserve slavery when they fought the slave trading British during our revolution? No there were bigger issues then too, just as there southerns were fighting for in 1861.

The patriots of 1776 certainly did not abolish slavery when they were fighting for "FREEDOM" then and that includes those patriots who fought from New York, Pennsylvania and all the other northern states, including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, because slavery continued in their states until well into the 1800's. No, it wasn't just a "Southern Thing". In fact the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution both contained language which protected slavery in those states also. Those documents left that matter as a state issue to decide in their own time, and did not give those type of matters to a national Government to control.