[aimhigh]

from the article: In 1863 Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States, wrote to Pope Pius IX claiming that the civil war raging across America was entirely due to “Northern aggression”.

The article fails to mention the Vatican donated a million dollars to the Confederates.

[Mr. K]

Most people, when asked, will say that the US Civil War was about slavery- it was only ONE of the issues

The real issue was the federal government telling the states what to do, and the states rejecting that.

Slavery was on its way out anyway and the civil war brought it about swiftly, but the core issue- states rights- should have been decided the other way

[Cheburashka]

...the Vatican donated a million dollars to the Confederates.

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If you have a citation to back up that statement I'd like to have it, because it's news to me.