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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:30 PM
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Meaningless Trivia Bit for today: Life under the Confederacy
Under the confederacy, citizens were not allowed to move about freely, and had to carry a domestic passport and required visas to travel from state to state.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:31 PM
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1. Damn nazis.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:32 PM
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3. So much for the lie that Confederates "fought for their rights"
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:38 PM
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5. I don't do these any more.
Sworn off.
Took the pledge.
Never again.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:40 PM
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6. Not Southbashing here
Read Zinn and you'll find that many (if not most) of the Confederate Army were forced into conscription.

Of course, most of the Union was forced too.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:32 PM
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2. What's your point?
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:33 PM
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4. No point whatsoever
Like I said, meaningless triva bit for today
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-16-07 06:46 PM
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7. Because in the CSA
states were sovereign.


That means they had a sovereignty.
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