Killing Jews is part of Confederate Heritage?

[Yupster]

38. Good luck in your research

There is quite a bit already written about Jews in the Confederacy. I think you'll find that they fought for the same patriotic reasons as their neighbors. When their states left the Union and formed a new nation, and that nation went to war, they went to war with it just like their non-Jewish friends and neighbors did.

The other thing I think needs research though is what the federal government meant to people in 1860. The relationship between the people and the federal government was so different from the world today that it needs to be understood to understand the times back then. The average person today deals with the federal government all the time, but back then, think of a world without income taxes, national parks, social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment, food stamps and even food and drug regulations.

I have my own academic interest in the Confederacy. I have studied the Confederate Constitution. It is the only time that a group of learned men ever looked at the US Constitution and decided what to keep and what to change. They met in committees for weeks, groups of former congressmen, senators, and judges and in the end didn't make many changes. They even decided to keep the electoral college. They did decide a president can't run for reelection and got one six year term. They put in a line item veto.

Anyway, good luck in your research from this old history teacher and textbook author.