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Be. Posted by Catherine Katrovitz on January 9,201

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It matters not whether Washington chopped down a cherry tree......or that there were multiple "Paul Revere" types....or incompetence on the battlefield. It is sad that historians seem to have proven that they themselves are at fault for providing us with tweaked "facts". Or maybe myths are just part of who we are, have been or will be. Posted by Catherine Katrovitz on January 9,2010 11:42 AM You would do better with a piece Myths of the Civil War, a far better established mythology with American historians. Among other issues, I suggest exploring whether Lincoln although an excellent politician and wordsmith should be given such high marks his failure to make more of an effort to head off the War, to retain the important Virginina, North Carolina and border states in the Union as opposed to the far less important, hot-head South Carolina and gulf states, and whether the strategies of Lincoln and Grant and Lee for that matter bringing about the slaughter of 700,000 young men who were

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