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To: all the best

The south started the war. Jefferson Davis ordered Confederate forces in Charleston SC to fire on a Federal installation. The only reason the south wanted to go its own way was so they could keep 3,000,000 people as chattel property, like their horses or mules. Jefferson Davis is enshrined on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Along with Lee, Jackson and others. The only man whose statue stands on Monument Avenue that has a winning record is Arthur Ashe.


37 posted on 02/26/2015 4:03:47 PM PST by X Fretensis (IW)
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To: X Fretensis

You have no idea what you are talking about.

The South did just about everything they could to avoid war including allowing a Federal Fort to control the entrance to their main port.

Lincoln made a call for 75,000 volunteers with no other possible reason than to invade the South. He also sent a ship to resupply Fort Sumter. The South had told him they would not attack it but they could not leave Fort Sumter in control of Charleston Harbor. If he resupplied the fort they had no choice.

The South at first refused to invade the North tho it might have won the war after Bull Run. They simply wanted to be left alone.

The North invaded the South. It is as simple as that.


40 posted on 02/26/2015 4:12:12 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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