To: Bluegrass Conservative
Sorry, but they didn't take up arms against their government. They SECEDED from the US Gov. formed their own, and took up arms to protect themselves from invasion.
20 posted on
12/16/2004 7:28:07 AM PST by
antisocial
(Texas SCV)
To: antisocial
They SECEDED from the US Gov. formed their own, and took up arms to protect themselves from invasion. Well, there IS that little matter of shelling that fort in Charleston harbor...
22 posted on
12/16/2004 7:32:19 AM PST by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: antisocial
Friday April 12, 1861 4:30 AM - A mortar shell was fired over Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC.
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