At 03:16 PM 7/16/2001 -0400, you wrote: >"Surrender means that the history of this heroric struggle will be written by >the enemy, that our youth wiil be trained by Northern school teachers; learn >from Northern school books Their version of the war; and taught to regard our >gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects of >derision."---------------------------------General Patrick R. Cleburne > >Soldier in Cleburne's Division Jeremiah That has been the case from time immemorial. Certainly some of it came to pass. Although reconstruction was a partial fulfillment of this bleak outlook and a minority of die-hard republicans tried to pin the label of 'traitors' on the leaders, I do not remember reading anywhere "maimed veterams" of either side considered objects of derision. The beautiful part about the United States is that individual school boards choose the books. I have yet to find Southerners looking on their gallant dead as traitors back then or now. Was your source Irving Buck? Mike