tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326223780463850836.post5462080895622938949..comments2023-10-11T09:12:39.054-05:00Comments on The Trans-Mississippian: Danger in the New Mexico TerritoryJane Johanssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723064098756475302noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326223780463850836.post-12040702452522385112010-10-22T06:37:13.587-05:002010-10-22T06:37:13.587-05:00It should also be noted that, when Sibley's me...It should also be noted that, when Sibley's men came slinking home to San Antonio, they brought the smallpox with them to the civilian population.<br /><br />A lot of attention is paid to Civil War battles, but ever since I started looking into it, it has seemed to me that the South lost the war on the home front, demanding everything of its citizens, and giving back nothing but a devastated economy, lawlessness, graft, disease, and Indian raids. Southern nostalgia for the Cause is a triumph of propaganda and determination not to be wrong, not to be responsible for one's own troubles, over reality, and we've been paying for it ever since.Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.com