Originally Posted by Grapesoda

in all seriousness, my family fought in the war of northern aggression, we were thrown off our land... just share croppers from Ireland (basically indentured servants/slaves) but at least we had food, cause the blokes starved us out of Ireland

Gen. Sherman burned us out on his 'march to the sea' ... left my family with nothing.... lotta good people died in that war, on both sides... not gonna pretend it didn't happen.

in fact heard very many, many second hand stories about the war, and they were all about the same thing: being hungry as fuck and being scared as hell... not one mention of black people...