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Even after the Confederate States of America was crushed in 1865, the spirit of the south lived on, and southern loyalists have remained ever since and fought in wars even to this day. Actual Confederate veterans fought in the Franco-Mexican War, the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War. Many troops from southern states fought in World War II with Confederate flags under their uniforms. The legendary General Patton himself had learned some valuable lessons as a child from the "Grey Ghost" himself, Colonel John S. Mosby and was a descendant of a Confederate officer. Many of the troops who fought in the Vietnam War especially displayed their Confederate sympathies, which was also a way of showing rebel defiance toward a federal government that they felt had abandoned them and a public at home that did not support them. Even today, during the "War on Terror" there are still Confederate troops in the field, fighting for dear old Dixie in American uniforms. |
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