[RobbyS]

People don't read about the savagery with which Sherman tore through South Carolina. Back in the '30s, Nazi propoganda commented on it as an example of what Germans would NOT do in wartime. The Federals blamed South Carolina for the war.

[Colt .45]

Just like the Lincolnophiles turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the truth about their sainted(?)leader. It was the abolitionist and the Yankee industrial power that got Lincoln into the presidency and they KNEW that it would provoke the Southern States into a war. Lincoln being the astute politician (meaning liar) that he was manipulated the Fort Sumter seige into war.

Not to mention that his concept of "The Union" having been perpetual was wrong and his calling up of 75,000 troops was unconstitutional. Lincoln, Stanton, Seward, Stevens - all political tools of the Northern industrialists.