Jun 11, 2020 -- 9:54AM, Shrewd_dude wrote:
Imagine a Union soldier in early 1865, after years of horrific war, looking ahead 150 years, and seeing these enemy flags everywhere. Would think they must have lost..Be like having British bases named after Rommel, Manstein et al It's hardly the same thing comparing a civil war which divivded a nation with a war between nation states. The alternative is you can act oppresively and ban anything that may be seen as a symbol of the other side and have daft situations where national dress and tartan are banned for 36 years.
It was only the Union that saw it is a civil war though. From the perspective of the Confederacy, the USA was a foreign country that they had secceded