RINO Tom
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« on: October 30, 2020, 07:47:05 PM » |
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I can only offer an anecdote here, but it's very interesting that I happened to have quoted a Union soldier from Connecticut writing home about the Civil War in a paper I wrote in college for an advanced Civil War elective. It's saved on my old computer, but if I remember I would really like to cite it in a few weeks when I am back at my parents' house.
Anyway, the jist of it was that this soldier effectively didn't see any reason why they shouldn't just let the South go, and that his views on slavery were closer to a Southerner's than the federal government by this point (I think the letter was written in the later stages of the war?). Considering CT seems to have been a lot less Republican than the rest of New England and close to a Democratic base in New York City, perhaps this wasn't an overly uncommon attitude in the state around this time?
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