Chambliss, Democrats clash on Civil War | ajc.com

Chambliss, Democrats clash on Civil War | ajc.com: "09/18/06

Washington – Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has Democrats sniping at him for a comment he made last week suggesting that if the South had had better intelligence, it would have won the Civil War.

Democrats leaked a story to a Capitol Hill newspaper, published Monday, that Chambliss, a Republican, had said in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday that had the South won, 'We'd be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.'"