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bmichaelh

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6. Slave hunts

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:32 PM

Oct 27

When the Confederate army went north of the Mason-Dixon, like to Pennsylvania, they engaged in slave hunts.

There is nothing about the Confederacy or its leaders or its soldiers that was noble.

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