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This was a poll on of all places a sports room, but I found it quite perplexing.
When examining casualties among American soldiers in various battles and wars, should Confederate soldiers in the U.S. Civil War be counted as American casualties or not?
To them maybe...the north did not recognize their secession. At no point was the accepted status a divided nation.Quote:
Those entities that went out of the Union ceased to exist as the States only exist as states United.
The Civil War was an American war... of course they are American dead soldiers.
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I took a while to ponder the question. It was a good one I had not considered before!
Then I was able to sum it up succinctly.
Since we accepted the secessionist states back into the Union (by warfare), we in turn also accepted those citizens (alive and dead) back in as well. Although entry into the Union is voluntary by each state, Lincoln brought them (rightly or wrongly) back into the Union by force.