Dear Sylvia,
  In your original post, you said that the actions of Robert E. Lee and
Jefferson Davis amounted to treason. In your most recent post, you
continue to refer to the "late unpleasantness" as the "Civil War". 
  In point of fact, it was not a civil war in that there was no attempt
to assume control of the national government. Rather, it was a War
Between the States as some of the states sought to leave the union that
they had joined some years earlier. Thinking otherwise is reflecting a
current view of affairs back to the mid-nineteenth century and has
buried within it the notion that the Federal Government came first
rather than the states. This is poor history and suggests that all of
those southerners who fought for their states were likewise guilty of
treason.
  These things are not simply a matter of words.
  Is it somehow better to speak lies about the dead than to speak truth
about the living?
  Best wishes,
  Bob
    
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