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To: SCDogPapa
If I'm not mistaken,,Congress did not declare war until 3 months after Lincoln had ordered the invasion of the South.

You're mistaken. The confederate congress passed a resolution declaring a state of war existed on May 6, 1861. Neither President Lincoln or the U.S. Congress ever issued a declaration of war. Such a declaration would be inappropriate. You declare war on other sovereign nations, not on rebellious sections of your own.

105 posted on 06/12/2003 12:22:12 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I have been corrected already. But, thanks anyway Non.
118 posted on 06/12/2003 12:34:26 PM PDT by SCDogPapa (In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie)
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To: Non-Sequitur
I have been corrected already. But, thanks anyway Non.
119 posted on 06/12/2003 12:34:28 PM PDT by SCDogPapa (In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie)
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To: Non-Sequitur
I have been corrected already. But, thanks anyway Non.
120 posted on 06/12/2003 12:34:29 PM PDT by SCDogPapa (In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie)
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