8th October 2015, 5:46 AM
ABF, you should know your history better than this. Oklahoma WAS NOT A STATE during the civil war. It was, in fact, native American territory. Native Americans did take part in hostilities in the region (most tribes taking the south's side if you can believe it) but that's got basically no bearing on this, because again, immigrant Americans weren't really living there. Oklahoma can't travel through time. It had nothing to do with the civil war.
However, you're right on at least one point. Oklahoma's location is to blame here. People who descended from confederates immigrated here, and it wouldn't take much for new generations to just assume Oklahoma was both a state and part of the confederacy back then. I still expect better of our site's own historian though.
However, you're right on at least one point. Oklahoma's location is to blame here. People who descended from confederates immigrated here, and it wouldn't take much for new generations to just assume Oklahoma was both a state and part of the confederacy back then. I still expect better of our site's own historian though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)