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Part One: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union

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The Civil Civil War War

The South was not a unified place, you know? And then to close off this whole thing about it, even some of the fucking plantation owners, fuck them. I'm not defending them. They get it on the act of hating the Confederacy, but they do it purely out of self interest because they're a bunch of goddamn capitalists. So when New Orleans gets occupied in 1862 and then throughout Mississippi in 1863, some rich fucks are like, you know what? Fuck it. We'll sell it to the Union army instead. Which is basically what you get when you try to run a war based on the idea of creating like the collective self interest of capitalists. Like, no, there

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