Why are the men at the Alamo considered heros for fighting for their independence while the men who fought for the Confederacy not considered heros by many, even though they were also fighting for their country and it's freedom.
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Somewhere I read that History is written by the winners. So, the winners will consider their fighting men and women "heroes". That's the answer to your question.
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Because they were fighting for their right to own slaves, since that's what their society depended on.
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The winners write the history. The Alamo - the US as a whole eventually were winners. The confederates were the enemy of the winners.
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Two completely different sets of circumstances. Actually, the Texicans -- as they were called back then -- were ingrate rebels. It's just that they were American/Europeans and the Mexicans lost the war. The Alamo -- glamorized beyond all reality -- also had the cache of being a 'last-stand' sort of massacre. And it had Davy Crockett, too.
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Assuming that is true,(which obviously it isn't), why didn't the North forbid slavery in the North? Why would the South, in which on 5% of the people owned slaves), fight the bloodest war in American history for the right to own slaves? Why did the South withdraw from the Union even after Lincoln promised to do nothing to interfer with slavery in the South? Your answer shows a destressing lack of knowledge of the political reality of the time. You start off with an assumption,(the South was fighting for slavery) which is false. Therefore, any conclusion based on that assumption is invalid. Why did Blacks, both free and slave, fight for the Confederacy?
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Anyone that matters sees heroes on both sides. Anyone who contends the South had none do not know squat about the conflict.
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Even Lincoln respected the southern fighter very much
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Because the Confederacy was fighting to preserve the institution of slavery, which is no longer viewed as an acceptable human endeavor. http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/1595583262/
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Because they were fighting to justify their treason to history. They failed, so now they suck.
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