[lentulusgracchus]

The war started when the commander of the first rebel battery said, "Fire". Jefferson Davis would say otherwise, as would you.

And as did Lincoln's own private secretary, John Nicolay.

But then I've posted that text to you repeatedly, from The Outbreak of Rebellion, penned by an ardent Northerner and Unionist and devoted supporter, that so utterly exposes to modern judgment Lincoln's carefully executed commencement of the war in a way that anticipated the modern euphemism "passive aggression", and did so in bold and devious deeds, to provoke a hecatomb of consequences.

Remember: Lincoln's ultimate burden is that he killed nearly a million people in order to have things his way. Lincoln called down a megadeath war on his own people, in order to do what the Constitution said he mought not.

[Non-Sequitur]

Remember: Lincoln's ultimate burden is that he killed nearly a million people in order to have things his way. Lincoln called down a megadeath war on his own people, in order to do what the Constitution said he mought not.

Nonsense.