Yo, Greg... What I said is that the bulk of the fighting, other than the two bloodiest battles, were fought in Virginia... Mananas (Bull Run) I & II, Richmond, Fredricksburg, Petersburg, were the biggies but there were hundreds of minor battles throughout Virgina... Virgina became the arena...

Yes, Krinkle... The destruction, especially by Sherman, and the "Reconstruction" were ugly... I do not defend the Union for their part in those... But then, an more importantly, I cannot defend the century of KKK and Jim Crow after the Union left the South to its own devices in after the 1976 election... That was disgraceful and if you want to know why black folks ain't all that wild about white people all you have to look at is what white people did to blacks during that 100 year period... BTW, it hasn't been that long since white people were killing black people because they were black...

Google up the Greensboro Massacre... That was just 33 years ago...

B~