General you can go ‘round and ‘round all you want and it still comes out the same. The South seceded from the Union to preserve slavery, not only in the South but to extend it into the new territories in the West("Bleeding Kansas''). Confederates forces opened fire on a United States Army installation in Charleston Harbor, SC. That being Fort Sumter. That was the opening act of war. The South (of 1861) lost the war it started. You want to talk about keeping it alive? For crying out loud from your parents basements that's all you Lost Causers do night and day and you just can't handle the truth. Just out of curiosity General, what did your ancestors do in the war?
...a United States Army installation in Charleston Harbor, SC.So you don't know what Fort Sumter was. I should have known.
Not very bright there, genius.
Here's a clue...Special Session Message July 4, 1861
Accumulations of the public revenue, lying within them, [9] had been seized for the same object.
Sorry to bust your boilerplate screeds with some facts, but Lincoln cared about tax revenue and maintaining control of the purse strings, not freeing the slaves.
If you weren't such a retard you would know that.
Ask yourself this...if the war was over slavery then why wasn't the Emancipation Proclamation only done two years after the war started as a means to boost enlistment and to garner support for the war?
This might help educate you as well...
Why The War Was Not About Slavery
Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress officially declared that the war WAS NOT AGAINST SLAVERY but to preserve the Union. (By preserving the Union, of course, they actually meant not preserving the real Union but ensuring their control of the federal machinery.)
You probably won't read that last article, but others may and they will be able to counter your BS, extremely prejudiced account of things.
Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about” slavery or was “caused by” slavery. I submit that this is not a historical judgment but a political slogan. What a war is about has many answers according to the varied perspectives of different participants and of those who come after. To limit so vast an event as that war to one cause is to show contempt for the complexities of history as a quest for the understanding of human action.
You fit the bill on that last one.