[Ditto]

Even more interesting would be a documentary on the New York and New England business interests that pushed Lincoln to start the war.

Which business interests were those? The shipping companies and textile mills looking forward to being shut off from southern cotton? The banks that didn't want the southerners to repay their loans?

[PeaRidge]

All that you named plus warehousing, cartage, insurance, ship building, dock owners, carpenters, livery renters, accountants, and thousands of hourly workers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Providence, and New Haven.

Northern secession talk was everywhere in March of 1861. Meanwhile, northern governors were all over Lincoln to start a war.....which of course he did.