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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

U.S. Grant would be a prime example of whitewashing history in both old and
new textbooks.  He as well-known here as he was given the choice of
resigning or being court marshalled a couple of miles from the family
homestead.  He, and his drinking and womanizing, were well known to family
and family friends.  In fact, the letter he wrote to his wife telling her
"they request that I resign or they will have me court marshalled" whine,
whine, whine was hanging at Fort Humboldt until the property was given to
the state.  Wow, surprise, surprise, the letter disappeared.  Wouldn't want
the world to know what Grant really was.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Melody O. <melody AT crecon.com>
>
> The Civil War stories are good examples of history conforming to the
> winner's perspective.
>
> The Civil War had little to do with abolishing slavery and much to do with
> power to keep the Union united.
>
> The Confederate States wanted the northern Union States to leave them
alone
> to do their trading with other places and to produce their products the
way
> they wanted without Federal Government intervention (which was upholded
> until then by the 10th Amendment).
>
> Abraham Lincoln wanted the divisive problems of slavery to go away whether
> slavery was abolished or not.  The Confederates felt threatened when Abe
> sent provisions to Fort Sumpter; they thought he was sending
reenforcements
> as well as food.  The Confederates fired on Fort Sumpter and the rest is
> history...and some of it is published correctly, but most isn't.  That
> certainly isn't the story I got when learning of the Civil War in Utah and
> Wyoming in public school.  Even the name of the war is deceptive.  The
> South obviously didn't want to overthrow the government and take control,
> it simply wanted to secede from the Union.
>
> As I was reading in my great-aunt Cora's textbook about the Civil War I
> read a passage that would *never* make it in today's history books:
> "Why the South Seceded.  Ponderous volumes have been written on both sides
> of the question whether the South had a right to secede from the Union.
> Every people cherishes the "sacred right" of revolution against a
> government which it has heretofore acknowledged if it is convinced that
> that government has become intolerable oppressive."
>
> Those are the types of stories that were in the old textbooks; new
> textbooks can't even compete.
>
> Best wishes,
> Melody
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