[rockrr]

That was exactly what the con-feds believed - well, that and “strike first and leave a bloody corpse”.

Unfortunately they couldn’t cash the check their mouths had written.

[jeffersondem]

“That was exactly what the con-feds believed (majority of bayonets) - well, that and “strike first and leave a bloody corpse”.

The South anticipated having 13 states in the Confederacy and to be opposed by 21 or more. I’m not sure why you state the South believed they had the majority of bayonets.