[central_va]

You are being disingenuous when you say Ft. Sumter was the only federal asset that the confederates seized. Every piece of military hardware south of the Mason Dixon line that belonged to the United States was seized by the confederates. I’m sure you will blithely justify it as some sort of recollection of tax revenue by the confederates for years of tariffs on cotton no doubt. Or better yet some sort of justified thievery based upon self-preservation for a “nation” that never needed to be created in the first place.

This is new tac, "it was about money". First it was about slavery, now it was about money. How much does it cost to get out of this abysmal Union? Hell you can have all your Federal stuff back, but in the case of Southern Independence, the Butcher wouldn't even parlay. He wanted the war, not the South.

[usmcobra]

No new tactic!

To the south everything was about money, slavery was big business and the products harvested by slaves were the economic engine of the south.

To try to suggest anything else is ludicrous, so please do show us all how little you really know about how the south was run.