No offense to you personally, but to my great grandfather, who was gone from ‘61 to 65 and to his brother, who fell at Cold Harbor, undue hardship was felt all around.
The south statreted a fight they could not win. Superior numbers, industry, and technology usually win all wars. And, if the south had given up when it was clear they were not going to win, hundreds of thousands would have lived.
That is true in all wars. Then and now.
“South started it”. Referring to Fort Sumter? The War of Northern Aggression was started prior to Charleston, by the subversive actions of the northern politicians.
No personal offense taken. Soldiers on both sides suffered because of the northern politician’s aggression. Just understand that it had damn little to do with the any altruism toward slaves and more to do with money and power(as usual).
Now we both have a common enemy, the liberals, who plan on much worse than the Civil War for us.