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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    My granddaddy fought for the North but I too am more interested in the South. I have a collection of books on the war that I read 30 years ago and not much since. Here on the forum we argue a lot about causes but few refer to source documents. I think I need to read diaries and letters from soldiers to see what they thought and fought for.
    I usually do my Civil War reading with the journals. letters and so forth. I usually know who won or lost a battle but it isn't my main interest.The average soldier's view, Union or rebel, was different from the leaders on either side.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    I usually do my Civil War reading with the journals. letters and so forth. I usually know who won or lost a battle but it isn't my main interest.The average soldier's view, Union or rebel, was different from the leaders on either side.
    I mix it up. I read battle books but I also mix it up with other topics. In a normal year, my reading usually tracks the Civil War sites I plan to visit in the year's travel plans,so the reading centers on the battles and the soldiers involved. Travel restrictions this year disrupted the travel plans and the reading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I've only occasionally felt the urge to read about the Civil War - or the "War of Northern Aggression" as my late Alabama-born mother-in-law would have it - although I do recall enjoying a couple of Bruce Catton's books on the subject many years ago. Most of what I've read about that war had to do with George Armstrong Custer, a particular interest of mine, and his involvement in it.

    Custer led troops at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Yellow Tavern and the Third Battle of Winchester, his actions in the last resulting in his promotion to the rank of Major General before he was 25. His relentless pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia is credited with hastening Lee's surrender. Custer had his faults, without question, but the man was personally fearless, sometimes pursuing the enemy so far ahead of his own troops that he had to turn and fight his way back through enemy lines to rejoin them. Arriving late for the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Custer is said to have had his company band strike up 'Dixie' as Lee rode away.
    Custer also led troops at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1,1865. He led 2 Union Cavalry Brigades that charged the extreme right of the Confederate line causing it to break and retreat. The open field across which they charged is one of the best preserved areas of the Five Forks battlefield. Visited it in January 2016. Quite a sight.

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    It is hard not to side with the South if you are for the USA. It was designed with strong State's Rights and a minimal Federal Government.
    The South stood for that. The Federal Government was becoming what we fought the American Revolution to get away from. The Civil War was actually the second American Revolution. Good American seeking freedom from Tyrants. I was born and educated as a Yankee but I have no problem seeing that.

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