It was treason. It was the taking up of arms against a duly elected government. When Lee invaded the North his army stole and looted too. Whats your point? And if the South had won the war it started would it have ended slavery?
“It was treason. It was the taking up of arms against a duly elected government.”
1. That is not the definition of treason.
2. Every state had and still has the absolute right to secede from the Union. It was Lincoln who had no authority—constitutional or moral—to stop them.
“When Lee invaded the North his army stole and looted too.”
Within the laws and customs of warfare. What Sherman did would see a general executed as a war criminal if he pulled that crap today.
“Whats your point?”
Don’t know what that person’s point is, but mine is that you are in possession of too few facts to have formed an opinion on this subject, much less an opinion that you defend with such energy.
“And if the South had won the war it started would it have ended slavery?”
Beyond any scintilla of a shadow of doubt. To say even that they might not requires malice of an appalling depth.
Further, to say that the South started the war requires some combination of obdurate malice and willful ignorance.
***It was the taking up of arms against a duly elected government***
Duly elected government? HA! Lincoln was not on the ballot in some states!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860