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In reply to the discussion: Did anyone else sing Battle Hymn of the Republic in school? [View all]politicat
(9,808 posts)39. No, the Confederacy wanted quite a lot of the western territories.
There were incursions into Colorado and New Mexico as well. Those were mostly about resources -- the CSA wanted silver, gold and copper, which the old Confederacy didn't have.
The eastern fronts properly get far more of the attention because they were much bigger and more complicated battlefields and strategies, that carried on for years, but there were additional fronts in the mountain West and desert southwest. Just much smaller scale.
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Yes, and we had to sing it in Church on Palm Sunday last year. So, I quit the choir and the church.
SharonAnn
Jul 2017
#4
Yes. Our 1950s-1960s school songbooks had quite a section of songs related to war & patriotism...
Hekate
Jul 2017
#13
Someone, perhaps the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, changed "die" to "live." Atlantic
WinkyDink
Jul 2017
#32