'Slavery' a term Obama drops around town and at the UN, ended in the US because 1.1 million dead or wounded Americans made it end

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Obama forgets slavery didn't disappear because of a snappy trial lawyer or an EPA ruling..

Obama's flip remarks casually ignore that 3 million fought and over 600,000 died to end slavery in the US over 140 years ago. Such forgetfulness gets him high marks at the UN. He was raised by white people in Hawaii and went to an elite private school, so doesn't even have a contemporary black American's life experience. Or for that matter, the contemporary experience of middle class America.

• It looks like this 14 year old boy died pretty fast. No nights singing around the campfire for him:
  

14 year old dead child in a Confederate trench in the Civil War.
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Above 1864, dead Confederate soldiers at Spotsylvania

• from The Eighth Alabama Company, The Civil War, "Costs of the War:"

"The human cost of the war far exceeded what anyone had imagined in 1861. The North placed roughly 2.2 million men in uniform (180,000 of them blacks), of whom about

• 640,000 were killed, wounded in battle, or died of disease.

• Of the 360,000 Northern soldiers who died, two-thirds perished from illnesses such as dysentery, diarrhea, measles, malaria, and typhoid.

Casualties in Confederate forces are more difficult to estimate, but they probably approached

• 450,000 out of approximately 750,000 to 850,000 Confederate soldiers.

Of these, it is

• estimated that more than 250,000 died.

The proportion of battlefield deaths to deaths by disease was probably the same as in the Northern armies.

• Total deaths thus exceeded 600,000,

and the

• dead and wounded combined totaled about 1.1 million.

More Americans were killed in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined from the colonial period through the later phase of the Vietnam War (1959-1975)."...

Human suffering also extended beyond the military sphere and continued long after fighting ceased. During the conflict, thousands of black and white Southerners became refugees, losing many of their possessions and facing an uncertain future in strange surroundings....After the war, many thousands of

• veterans struggled to cope with
  
• lost limbs and other wounds.

Thousands of families faced difficult financial circumstances due to the death of husbands and fathers. The United States government made available small pensions for disabled veterans and widows of soldiers, and southern states did the same for former Confederate soldiers and their widows.

• In neither instance, however, were the funds sufficient to provide for all the needs of a family....

Railroads and industries in the South were in shambles, more than one-half of all farm machinery was destroyed, and 40 percent of all livestock had been killed."...

"Confederate men died at a rate three times that of their Yankee counterparts;

• one in five white southern men of military age did not survive the Civil War.[2]"...

from "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War," by D.G. Faust via History News Network, George Mason University

• Democrat Senator James Webb says the South has never recovered from the economic devastation of that war, 7/22/10.

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Above, Confederates lying dead near Antietam

Andersonville Cemetary, Georgia. Buried here are many Union prisoners who died in captivity. It is unlikely any of them ever had slaves. They left wives without husbands, children without fathers. Such sacrifice is not for Obama.

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