No military offensive of any consequence immediately preceded or followed it.
Well, I see you finally read the timeline.
What you call of no consequence included seizing federal installations and property worth millions, including a U.S. mint.
It's hard to imagine how you can post this crap.
Walt
Only those within the boundaries of the confederate states. The south paid taxes and built those things too, Walt. It's pure nonsense to suggest that everything belonging to the federal government in 1860 was in fact really the exclusive domain of the yankee states in that government, thereby giving them alone ownership of it when the country split in 1861. The confederates recognized this and sought to retain that which was in their borders - a perfectly fair formula for both sides. In some cases, they even offered to compensate the yankees for those installations just to ease the transition. The Lincoln and his cronies sought a different solution though. Like a mohammedan on a desert sand mound, they claimed it all as their own - permanently - and sought to achieve that claim by the sword.
Walt, I'm beginning to think the neo-rebs are Democrats in some sort of drag. They have no need for facts, logic, truth or consistency. Their feeling and emotions are all they need. They call you names all they want, but if you respond, you are basding grand Souther Culture. They also love to play the victim game a lot with all their cries about "Southern Bashing" and endless 150 year old grievances of what happened to g-g-g-g pappy so and so. They must have a damn copy of Jessi Jackson's play book --- or maybe he has a copy of theirs.