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confederates as secular infidels. their testimony about lee or anything else does not have standing. a bright youngster from ohio, who loved the civil war since he was a small boy, went on a lot of tours with me. while he was still, he was from ohio, loved ohio troops didn t have any southern enthusiasm at all. none. but as a high schoolboy with great grades he was eligible to graduate with honors and wrote a pay ear bow the civil war and chose to describe the battle of fredericksburg and talked about the lighting up of the northern horizon and mentioned southerners hadn t seen it because of where they lived some of them thought it was a super natural display in celebration of the great confederate victory. well the teacher who was supervising the paper, marked this boy down for accepting the notion not there was special meaning to it but that it happened at all because he cited a confederate source as reporting it. the fundamental historical premise, i guess, well worth lear