When does the 2nd one start?
You are referring to The War Between the States?
“This impacted families, communities, and the entire country for generations to come.”
The nation is still reeling from the disaster at Appomattox.
Yup. another war brought on by DEMOCRATS!
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“On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired the opening shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.”
Actually, liberals need to study history and stop guessing at it with “everyone knows”. No one knows who fired the first shot.
The First War of Liberal Stupidity.
See, see! Trump’s racist, homophobic, pro-slavery letters written on paper owned by Twitter again!
The war did not begin on 12 April 1861, nor did it end on 9 April, 1865. That’s just the Yankee narrative.
The American Civil War or How the South got it’s ass kicked.
The South has been paying for losing that war ever since.
April 12, 1970 - Just to the southeast of Houston, TX for a grand sum of less than $500 (no insurance, either), ro_dreaming was born to the world.
I just bought Shelby Foote’s three volume set on the Civil War. I’m interested in learning about the events and communication methods that led to the event.
Jan. 8, 1861 at Fort Barrancas. Union fired first.
This is incorrect. The Star of the West was carrying troops and munitions with the intention of increasing the level of forces in Sumter.
They attempted to sneak these men in by having them hide below decks, but they had been spotted offloading the men from the USS Brooklyn and so the Confederates knew they were coming before they arrived.
The Star of the West was carrying a hostile force, and everyone involved knew it. It was just another dirty trick from Washington DC, and it's one of the reasons nobody believed any promises out of Washington DC.
This is incorrect too. Beauregard sent a message to Major Anderson informing him of the arrival of Lincolns fleet of belligerent warships. He asked Anderson for a truce. He informed Anderson that if Anderson would not fire on his men, he would not fire on Anderson.
Anderson responded that if Beauregard fired at any ship bearing an American flag, Anderson would use all the guns of Ft. Sumter to attack him.
So it looks like Anderson was the one who actually sent an ultimatum.
In the South, Mr Lincoln’s War is often called The War of Northern Aggression.
Then there's the strange conglomeration of modern day political correctness with secesssionist fervor: Lincoln wasn't perfect by today's standard, therefore he was a monster and the South was right.
What gets left out of the discussion are all the monstrous mistakes and missed opportunities of Southern leaders in the years leading up to the war.
They didn't want to get rid of slavery. They wanted to secure its continued existence.
Northerners tried to accommodate the slaveowners. They weren't perfect. Many of them just wanted to ignore slavery and hoped the problem would just go away.
But by the mid-19th century, it was the South's problem and Southern elites fumbled on slavery and secession in a disastrous way.
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