>>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.
Galveston Island doesn't belong to the Chinese government. Fort Sumter did belong to the federal government.
The South seceded from the union, creating a separate country.
Not so much, no.
As would have been Ike, Eacker, Spaatz, Lemay, Westmorland
Thanks for the post. I always thought that Lincoln couldn’t let the South secede from the Union because it generated major finances at least more than the North.
You lost causers always leave the last paragraph of that letter out for some reason. I wonder why?
“I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.”
That last paragraph puts Lincoln morally above every leader in the confederacy.