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Originally posted by Shortfuse
Also remember the men who fought under that flag were traitors. 
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Who were never, to the best of my knowledge, tried and convicted as such. Who were allowed to return to their homes and families. Who were allowed to keep their side arms and animals.
Many of whom were honored by President Lincoln and General Grant. Many of whom went on to serve the United States in subsequent wars.
If you want to bandy about the word "traitor," go back a few years to the founders of our country who rebelled against England. They were "traitors," too under your definition.
Had the South won, would they still be "traitors?"
Many were highly conflicted men who fought for their homeland -- which they saw as their state as opposed to the United States.
President Lincoln and others who followed chose to heal the scars of war -- not rub salt into them.
He and they were right.
I don't support or defend the young woman in question -- although I don't know her motives good or bad. However, this dress seems a really stupid thing to do to me. At the best in really bad taste -- at the worst, totally racist.
To call those who fought in the Confederate Army "traitors" goes too far, though, when judged by history.
Finally, whomever mentioned it above is right -- the catalyst for the Civil War may have been slavery, but the real reason for the conflict was states rights -- one side dictating laws and morality to the other. Despite who was right.