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Originally Posted by HuskyMan
Yankees/unionists/federale conscripted soldiers who fought Lincoln's war buried in the backyard of the Confederate General's home.....what's with that? Did they think by interring Union dead in Lee's backyard they were sticking it to the South? What if American soldiers were buried in the backyard of North Vietnam's president/dictator Ho Chi Minh's home in nice rows of uniformly identical grave markers?......weird....
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They weren't trying to "stick it to the south" as much as stick it to ole Bobby Lee. It worked. Lee did not return to Arlington