>>OIFVeteran wrote: “Good informative video about the cause of the civil war by the former head of the history department at West Point. https://youtu.be/pcy7qV-BGF4";
I see you are continuing to sneak your big-government, central-planning socialism into the narrative. Seidule is, to be kind, a revisionist-historian. Why else would he get that kind of position at the Academy under the Obama Administration? Think about it?
I seem to recall the same blood-thirsty generals — primarily, Sherman, Sheridan, and Grant — who plundered, pillaged and then burned the South almost to the ground, leaving hundreds of thousands freezing and starving to death in the dead of winter, were the same ones who continued their bloody careers by the massacre of, and/or promoting the massacre of, the Native-American Indians, whose natural title to the land was standing in the way of the blatantly unconstitutional, government-sponsored-and-paid-for Transcontinental Railroad, that just so-happened to begin in Souix City, Iowa, where the patron-saint Abraham Lincoln had previously, and conveniently, bought a whole bunch of land, and by which many “republican” politicians and supporters lined-their pockets with land-grabs and political favors. Nice guys...
Shame on you.
Mr. Kalamata
What *NEVER* gets pointed out in these diatribes is that they were going to keep slavery in the Union, that indeed Lincoln and his associates bent over backwards to guarantee that slavery would persist in those states that wanted it.
Of course this blows a very big hole in the assertion "the war was over slavery."
Not really. Slavery wasn't on the negotiating table at all. The North was doing whatever it could to reassure the South on this point, so no, the North really wasn't motivated to attack them because they hated slavery.
Also, this business of hating slavery in that day and age is not quite the way it's presented nowadays. There were a few abolitionists and such that hated it because they saw it as immoral, but the majority of whites in the North hated it because it brought black people into their societies, and because they saw it as a threat to their labor and wages.
They were very prejudiced in those days, and black laws were created in all sorts of Northern states to keep black people out.