If the Union Veterans Union wants to talk about cross-dressing then...

Let's talk about the hero of the Union Veterans Union, Abraham Lincoln. After all he's the reason that there is a Republican splinter group that refers to itself as the "Log Cabin Republicans!

Wikipedia does a good detailing why "Honest Abe" might have been gay and his relationship with Joshua Speed, which was the inspiration for the Log Cabin Republicans...

"Lincoln met Joshua Fry Speed in Springfield, Illinois, in 1837. They lived together for four years, during which time they occupied the same bed (along with William Herndon and sometimes a fourth man) and developed a friendship that would last until their deaths. ^[26] Historians such as Donald point out it was not unusual at that time for two men to share even a small bed due to financial or other circumstances, without anything sexually being implied. Putting the issue in historical perspective, Jonathan Ned Katz, the first tenured Lesbian and Gay Studies professor in the United States wrote of the bed sharing...

Katz does indicate that such sleeping arrangements "did provide an important site (probably the major site) of erotic opportunity." Katz notes that referring to present day concepts of "homo, hetero, and bi distort our present understanding of Lincoln and Speed's experiences"^[28] and that rather than there being "an unchanging essence of homosexuality and heterosexuality" people throughout history "continually reconfigure their affectionate and erotic feelings and acts.^[29] He suggests that the Lincoln-Speed relationship fell within the 19th Century category of "intense, even romantic man to man friendships" with erotic overtones that may have been "a world apart in that era's consciousness from the sensual universe of mutual masturbation and the legal universe of 'sodomy,' 'buggery,' and 'the crime against nature"

And let's not forget about Ape Lincoln's relationship with another man... David Derickson, again citing Wikipedia...

"Captain David Derickson was Lincoln's bodyguard and companion between September 1862 and April 1863. They shared a bed during the absences of Lincoln's wife, until Derickson was promoted in 1863.^[35] Derickson was twice married and fathered ten children, but whatever the exact level of intimacy of the relationship, it was the subject of gossip. Elizabeth Woodbury Fox, the wife of Lincoln's naval aide, wrote in her diary for November 16, 1862, "Tish says, Oh, there is a Bucktail soldier here devoted to the president, drives with him, and when Mrs. L is not home, sleeps with him. What stuff!"^[36"

What stuff indeed! The Union Veterans Union also states that...

"the SCV hosts field black Rebel soldiers, talk to visitors about how the "yankees" raped the Southern Women (as well as the female slaves) just before they torched their homes! The Yankees are always portrayed as the invaders and the ones who caused the war to happen!"

Newsflash! The Yankees did cause the war to happen and they did rape pillage and burn houses! But don't take my word for it, well ok, go ahead and take my word for it...

"reading through the U.S. Forestry Service's "The History of the Irish Wilderness" , which cites the official records of the War of the Rebellions, one will find that anyone who was even "suspected" of being a "Bushwhacker" was taken prisoner. In Captain Boyd's (who was a Union Scout) report he states that:

"…found fresh trail of horses, followed them on Jack's Fork to the residence of Miles Stephens and brother, Jack Stephens, whom' I'm satisfied were Bushwhackers. Burned the house."

Anyone "suspected" of harboring or aiding a Bushwhacker had their property burned, furthermore, in Captain John Boyd's  report of the 6th Provisional Regiment EMM (Union)  one will find between November 4 - 9 , 1863 ,there were over 23 houses burned  , and 10 men killed, by these Union troops, the majority of which were prisoners who "tried to escape" and were shot. "

Hmmm, so the Union Veterans Union says that Yankees didn't burn houses eh? Another piece of advice for you Neo-Yankees... if you're going deny War Crimes, then its probably not the best idea to plaster one of history's biggest War Criminals on your webpage...

The idiots of the Union Veterans Union do not even know the words of the slime ball, freedom haters that they "honor"...

"There is a class of people (in the South), men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." -General Sherman

But the most damning informtion about the Union Veterans Union (found on their website) reveals that they are cooperating with Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center...

DID YOU KNOW....That UVU members were among the first to report on the rise of members of  League of the South-ers (or LOSers as we refer to them) KKK and other racist factions within the leadership of the SCV?? This led to the expose' on the CBS EVENING NEWS just prior to the SCV National Encampment in 2000 and the listing of the LOSers and the SCV as being a hate group, by the Southern Poverty Law Center"