texts: Some things must never change. </s> <s> Is that why you come in here tossing pennies to my starving men? It's damned condescending! </s> <s> Don't condescend to me!  We have both of us prospered from the arrangements of our kind...
labels: Our 'kind'?  What is that supposed to mean?  These men are all I have left and they stay because they will fight!  They desire it!  They seek it!  Of course Virginia is terrified!  For my soldiers this is a war to obliterate the 'upper class' from the face of the earth! Should I tell them all to go home because if they win it will ruin me!?  It is impossible for me to imagine that Negroes are fighting so that only white men may be free! If we win this war they will own this country too!