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by: Will-Dockery - Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:45 UTC

> > Will Dockery wrote:
> > An aspect of the Civil War routinely ignored by Hollywood:
> >
> > Rich Man's War:
> > Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower
> > Chattahoochee Valley
> > By David Williams
> > Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998. $34.95
> >
> > Reviewed by Thandeka
> >
> > The importance of David Williams's new book, Rich
> > Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the
> > Lower Chattahoochee Valley, cannot be overestimated.
> >
> > .. The result is a vivid depiction of the life
> > and times of a people who called the Civil War "a rich
> > man's war and a poor man's fight."
> >
> Dale wrote:
>
>
> This is true of ALL wars. Poor men never wake up one day and shout

> "let's have a war!" and poor men do not benefit from the
wars that rich
> men start. Wars are fought between opposing powers, and control is

> always the goal.
>
> dmh

Agreed and seconded.

This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=151152612#151152612

A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.

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