Monday
Dec202010
620,000
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 11:53AM 620,000
That is the number of Americans who were killed in the Civil War. The conflict was put into motion on this day in 1860 when South Carolina left the Union.
Of course, the number of slaves who lived in bondage, and died as property over the course of US history is many times that number, and the scars ofslavery still wound our nation to his day.
The price of viewing some as having innate racial superiority to others is at least partially expressed in those numbers. When some try to whitewash and romanticize the causes and costs of the Civil War, let us not forget the price that was paid, and is still being paid today.
--Daryl Northrop , Descendant of George Burroughs - Union soldier from Iowa.
Reader Comments (1)
Well said. Let's never forget, ~Descendant of Abraham Quinn, Union Soldier from Pennsylvania, killed in action at the Battle of Cold Harbor