As Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural, "While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."
The anti-war protests in the North were HUGE! They involved riots and the murder of children!
Anti war sentiment in the south took the form of whole counties and parts of states opposing the rule from Richmond. Makes draft riots pale by comparison.
Booth himself was a northern!
Having spent a fair amount of time in Richmond, Booth considered himself Southern. He was also born and raised in Maryland.
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