And we need to remember...... the south fired the first shots
The garrison at Fort Sumter was there to enforce Lincoln’s insane tariff. It was given every opportunity to abandon the fort. Lincoln wanted the Southerners to fire the first shot, much as FDR wanted the Japanese to initiate WW2 at Pearl Harbor.
NEA history books have successfully indoctrinated the masses.
The only casualty at Fort Sumter was a horse. When the garrison finally surrendered, the South Carolina brigade saluted the northerners as they departed the harbor.
>>And we need to remember...... the south fired the first shots<<
...at an invading army. Good grief!
Would we now fire the first shot if Chinese army units landed on Galveston island?
The South seceded from the union, creating a separate country.
Furthermore, Lincoln, the great emancipator, was quoted on numerous occasions fighting the war..not to free slaves, but to preserve the union.
Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
In his own words.
Sherman/Sheridan were responsible for the death of thousands of native Americans. In fact, Sheridan coined the phrase, “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
War is hell...granted, but in today’s society some of these guys would be charged with war crimes with utilizing tactics against civilians.
The Northern Forces under Abner Doubleday occupied the Southern owned Island of Ft. Sumter. This would be akin to the South invading and taking Governor’s Island in New York Harbor.
And, yes, it was that Abner Doubleday.