#145- Shelby Foote's The Civil War Part 1
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The Civil War - A Book Review
Caral: I don't know how many people even think about the civil war any more. There's been this mania to get rid of statutes of people that nobody even knows who they were, and if they do, they know it from a wicipedia article or an inphogalactic article. He could have hung robert lee for treason or sedition, or whatever. A quota war crime tribunal could have been held. And neno, they could've killed every person who so much as provided a match stick to the confederate states. But grant, grant was a magnanimous, fine soul,. As best i can tell, at the end of the war
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