The love of the Confederacy There are two Confederacys, one of
history and one of imagination. The one we deal with today is of
imagination. The one of rebel flags and the Sons of Confederate
Veterans and the cult of the dead rebels. It has little to do
with reality. The real Confederacy was closer to Biafra than
Nazi Germany. A poor, break away Republic destined to be crushed
by the larger neighbor. The reason you get people like Jim Webb
playing cute and George Allen praising the Confederacy has to do
with how the Confederacy was ressurected in the postwar
period.It was about race and integration, not history. But then,
like the Wehrmacht, way too much has been made of the
Confederacy's military prowess, and far too little of the
Union's. For now, we're gonna talk about the historical
Confederacy. Jesse James got his start in crime as a member of
Bloody Bill Anderson's guerrilla band. They murdered people and
called it war. Anderson and Quantrill were war criminals by any
modern standard. The confederacy ha