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What They Fought for 1861-1865 James M. McPherson
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

General Sterling Price Confederate general Sterling Price, ca.1861–1865. Fought from 1861-1865, it cost the lives of 750,000 soldiers, to say nothing of civilian casualties. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994; Cole II #558; Eicher #673.) McPherson, James M., editor. It is too bad that it takes a North Korean communist slat to get this truth to people so they with what intelligence they have left can watch this revealing and riveting moviefor free! McPherson, however, attempts to answer the question in a much more scholarly light in What They Fought For, 1861 – 1865. Patriotism and courage They utterly lacked the courage to fight, however, and so Ayers' cowardly “war” was waged by stealthily planting bombs and hiding out until he surrendered to authorities in December 1980. Confederates fought for as many different reasons than did Federals. Most were granted their freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and that freedom was maintained by a Union victory in the Civil War (1861-1865). The inscription reads, “In memory of the soldiers and sailors of late rebellion 1861-1865. When the Spanish-American War began, many African Americans were only a generation removed from slavery. Wikipedia quotes one source to the effect that this amounted to 10% of all Northern males 20-45 years old, . The patriotic legacy of Fort Sumter our teachers imparted to us, as young inheritors of the Confederate past, was that our ancestor had been unafraid to fight, and had fought with remarkable courage long after all hope of victory was gone. What They Fought For, 1861-1865. They laughed and joked that it would be over quickly, maybe even with the first shooting. The last soldiers that died for any kind of fight for freedom fought between 1861- 1865; after that each and every war was fought to expand the empire - the vietnam war being the most onerous, yeah those Vietnamese sure are a threat to the world 40 years later. €�None of them died in battle,” McKeesport Preservation Society director Maryann Huk said, noting it is not known where they fought. I've just finished reading What They Fought For: 1861-1865 by James M. The successes of Buffalo soliders in the war inadvertantly helped to export the very racism they fought against to the far reaches of America's fledgling empire. This slender volume, a gift from my father, is a collection of three lectures presented by McPherson at Louisiana State University in 1993. On the fronts of World War II, 16,000,000 American soldiers and officers fought; 406,000 of them did not return home.