No YOU’RE an idiot. There wasn’t anything ‘’peaceful’’ about the South’s separation. They seceded in February 1861 and opened fire of Ft. Sumter 2 months later. You Lost Causers and your “Southern Heritage’’ bs. I’ll say it again, a bunch of treasonous bastards who rent the nation in two and caused the largest loss of life this nation has ever suffered in any war.
He who maneuvers another into striking the first blow is the responsible party for what follows. Secession was peaceful, can you point to any armed clash during secession. The Civil War was caused by the United States invading the territory of a now separate and sovereign nation. Similar to the invasion of South Sudan by the Khartoum government after South Sudan seceded. Federal armies and their camp followers invaded a sovereign neighboring state, not at war with the United States, (which in itself is a criminal act) and conducted American Schrecklichkeit with a real relish leaving entire states such as Mississippi or South Carolina wastelands and many yankee invaders would cheer the following sentiment of a German officer later wrote about the town of Louvain “We shall wipe it out...Not one stone will stand upon another. We will teach them to respect Germany. For generations people will come here and see what we have done.†Such behaviors are not only morally culpable but would be considered criminal offenses by any standards of military behavior. Even in the 1860’s such general plundering and destruction was considered to be a violation of the norms of war between civilized states. But no one ever said the invading blue locusts were civilized.