How can anyone regard the Confederate soldiers as anything other than terrorists and traitors?

Question

During the Civil war, the Confederates didn't want to be a part of the USA, and took up arms against American soldiers. In my mind every man who sided with the Confederacy , wore a uniform of the Confederacy and took up arms against American (Union) soldiers were traitors and terrorists. I'm amazed how anyone could call Robert E Lee or Jefferson Davis 'American heroes'. These men were the Osama Bin ladnes of thier time- scum who took delight in killing Americans. HOW can anyone not feel shame or disgust when thinking about the Condeferacy? The Confederate flag is as vile and offensive as the Nazi flag...

Pres. Andrew Johnson certainly deserved impeachment- as he appeased the south- After the war, every high ranking Confederate soldier starting from Robert E. Lee deserved to be executed- yet Johnson did no such thing-he acted as if the southern agression never occoured...Thank god for the Union- they preserved this great nation....

Answer 1

OMG! Thank you! Since moving to the South, I have been repeatedly stunned at the gall these descendants of the traitors have at pretending that The Great Betrayal never happened or was their "right."

Those bastards all deserved to hang for their treason but because Reconstruction became the period of Southern Appeasement, the whole thing was swept under the rug and became the Second Betrayal.

The Confederate flag is offensive for many reasons and the betrayal is chief among them. For people to wave that piece of rag and call themselves patriots is beyond me. The whole thing should still be a hanging offense.

Answer 2

How can you call Confederates terrorist? They were fighting in their homeland, for their homeland, while the federal government was taking it away. This is the same as calling a man a murder after he kills a man who has broken into his house, raped his wife, and killed his dog. Please, I beg you, read a book by someone who lived in these times and took part in these events. Read a Yankee's autobiography, try Grant, you will be surprised by their motives, and convictions.

Answer 3

I think that you're forgetting that Confederate soldiers didn't blow themselves up around innocent civilians. These soldiers also didn't have a "jihad". They fought for independence just as the 13 colonies did in the late 1700's.

You do have an interesting point of view and have to give you a star for the question.

I'm from the south and conservative, HOWEVER, I don't believe the "South will rise again" or any crap like that. But I do believe in smaller federal government and stronger state government and did the southerners of that time. The federal government has just gotten to big and has it's hands in everything. Also remember that history is written by the victors

Answer 4

The same could be said of the Revolutionary soldiers who went against the existing government, England. Such is life, such is war, that's the way it goes. The word "terrorist" has been changed during the last few years. It has a lot of added baggage now. You can't tack that baggage onto something that happened almost 150 years ago.

On the other hand, I think a lot of southerners should "get over it" and stop flying the rebel flag, for instance.

Answer 5

Very good point there has been many incidents in wars where the citizens have risen up against the enemy within.The French Resistance were heros in WW2 as were the South Asian people that fought silently against the Japenese and depending on the outcome in Iraq the insurgents will either be heros if they win or terrorists and traitors if they lose.

Answer 6

They were, indeed, rebels. They were not terrorists. The reason is because terrorists do not wear clearly identifying uniforms and do not function under a particular flag, even a confederate one. Nor did they deliberately murder civilians.

There is also a huge gray area in the treason part, too. You see, technically, states are allowed to succeed from the union. Since that is what they did first before any shots were fired, technical they were not citizens of the United States. So it isn't that cut and dried that their actions were treasonous.

Answer 7

The soldiers of the Confederacy were the TRUE patriots.

America at the time was a VERY different country, and adhered to a government philosophy that kept the Federal side weak, and the States' rights strong.

Abe Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression forced the States, which had been VERY independent since the ratification of the US Constitution, to bow before Federal power.

This has paved the way for the increasingly intrusive nature of the Federal government, which dictates what we are to learn in schools, how much water our toilets can use per flush, that we must use seat belts and child seats in our cars, what drugs we are allowed to take (both medical and recreational), how much money we're allowed to deposit or withdraw from our own bank accounts without notifying the Federal government, how much liquid we're allowed to carry on airplanes, and many other minute details of Americans' lives.

The Founders who wrote our Constitution had vigorous debate over how strong the Federal government ought to be, relative to the governments of the States. But even the most ardent and outspoken Federalists of that time would have been outraged at the size of today's Federal government, and the scope of its authority.

Answer 8

1. The war is over and has been for 142 years.

2. The whole theory of the Union side was that the southern population were, continued to be, and would always be, Americans.

3. Americans admire gallantry and bravery and heroic deeds even on the part of our enemies. Patton admired Rommel. We certainly admire and are proud of our fellow Americans who exhibited such qualities.

Answer 9

Ur opinion is like the British had on the Americas during the Revolutionary War. I'm not saying succession was right or wrong but, it was the same thing done by our forefathers basically

Answer 10

in a certain county in Fl. (okay it's Lee..hehe) we have a huge portrait of Lee in the courthouse...some poeple make a stink about it but we keep it there anyway...drop by some time and visit now won't ya?? I promise you Lee took no delight in killing americans. You knew that lincoln asked Lee to lead the union forces don't you? Lee felt a sense of commitment to Virginia...things were much more state centric back then too, nothing like it is today.