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To: Buckeye McFrog

As much as certain semi-educated citizens and modern-day Blacks like to flatter themselves by preaching that the Civil War was about ending slavery, it was not. We had war when Lincoln called up troops to invade the South.


22 posted on 10/31/2017 9:00:05 AM PDT by myerson
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To: myerson
Myerson: "We had war when Lincoln called up troops to invade the South Jefferson Davis ordered military assault on Union troops in Union Fort Sumter, then formally declared war on the United States, May 6, 1861."

Fixed it.

62 posted on 10/31/2017 2:36:03 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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