Happy Thanksgiving, Yankee Supremacists
It’s Our National Holiday—and We Can Thank Lincoln and the Unionists
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, while the Civil War raged, the northern magazine Harper’s Weekly ran a gushingly sentimental poem on Thanksgiving. Written from the perspective of a youthful soldier in the Union army writing home to relatives, the poem began: “Looking up to the dear old flag / With loyal hearts and true, / Do you smile to think for freedom’s sake / I am absent today from you?”
That poet acknowledged his family’s worry: “I know who name me every day / When they kneel to God in prayer / I …
