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Condense there is insane amount of words 19,000![edit]

Remove text and condense through more subeheadingd. 64.189.18.30 (talk) 04:03, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Northern" slave states is wrong[edit]

the term depicting the border states as "Northern" is wrong and should be redacted. At no point were the border states considered Northern. They were by all means still Southern, in Kentucky's case in particular which had both a Unionist and Confederate state governments and was by all respects no different than North Carolina or Tennessee culturally, geographically, or demographically, and having a Southern plantation economy, and was considered an equal member state by the CSA, multiple sources confirm KY as Southern throughout. Missouri is also another case of having a Unionist and Confederate state government and still considered Southern as done so in Lloyd's map. At the very worst they were the Border South. RIII98 (talk) 04:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024[edit]

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Regarding the sentence "The Modern display of the Confederate battle flag primarily started during the 1948 presidential election, when the battle flag was used by the Dixiecrats."

Change "Modern" to "modern". It should not be capitalized. HertzDonuts (talk) 05:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Good catch, thanks. Plus a few other common nouns. — Smuckola (talk) 05:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024[edit]

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Regarding the paragraph:

Confederate conscription was not universal; it was a selective service. The First Conscription Act of April 1862 exempted occupations related to transportation, communication, industry, ministers, teaching and physical fitness. The Second Conscription Act of October 1862 expanded exemptions in industry, agriculture and conscientious objection. Exemption fraud proliferated in medical examinations, army furloughs, churches, schools, apothecaries and newspapers.

Add links to Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864.

I suggest changing it to this:

Confederate conscription was not universal; it was a selective service. The [[Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864|First Conscription Act]] of April 1862 exempted occupations related to transportation, communication, industry, ministers, teaching and physical fitness. The [[Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864|Second Conscription Act]] of October 1862 expanded exemptions in industry, agriculture and conscientious objection. Exemption fraud proliferated in medical examinations, army furloughs, churches, schools, apothecaries and newspapers.

HertzDonuts (talk) 00:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, except that I don't see the need for the second piped link, since it links to the same article. Readers will get the idea if they click on the first, which, sadly, statistics show most seldom do. Carlstak (talk) 01:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2024[edit]

The top infobox image for the CSA uses incorrect terminology in its caption and all in all seems pointless, remove it. At least change the caption to read something like "Map of the United States with states that joined the C.S.A. shaded." 50.205.215.149 (talk) 03:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]