CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF THE FUTURE 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

All this shows that a war of aggression was forced upon us to be 
made effectual by the violation of the constitution, and this was 
accomplished by the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of brave men, 
and billions of dollars worth of property, and the making of untold 
thousands of sorrowing widows and orphan children, in addition to 
the overthrow of much of the constitution, the destruction of the 
doctrine of States' rights, and went far toward the establishment 
of a  centralized Federal government with unlimited jurisdiction.

The great central facts of history, which I have stated, are so 
fully imbedded in the history of our country, that no amount of 
special pleading, no amount of sophistry and misrepresentation in 
party official records, and school and other histories, can prevent 
this from coming into the full light of the day by the historians 
of the future, when the passions and the prejudices of the war shall 
have died out, and then, if not sooner, the world will know that 
our brave men and matchless women were not rebels and traitors, 
but patriots, nobly sacrificing themselves for their country, 
their homes, and their constitutional rights.

John H. Reagan.