Thanks for the help.
The slaves issue would had been over sooner or later anyway. Slavery was on it’s last legs in the 1840’s-50’s thank God.
I believe the war was not about slavery and never was. That thinking is over for me.
People still use it to pound on the South, but some of us, a lot of us didn’t get on the shame and blame train.
Here’s what I think it boils down to and not much more.
I could be wrong but really don’t care if I am anymore.
The Corwin Amendment was offered to the South somewhere about March 2-12 1861
Keep your slaves forever if y’all come back into the Union.
Our answer, we have had enough, let’s fight.
All those years and years of bickering and backstabbing were OVER.
Our answer was in our cannon balls tearing up Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 all deals were now null and void and we burned all the bridges.
We went for broke and we got it, but by God we tried.
We had had enough.
This is what I get out of a lifetime of stories told me from a defeated people, a culture totally burned to the ground, that the North will never know OR understand.
This was just like William Travis (Son of S.C.) had done. Firing his cannon at Santa Anna from the Alamo was his answer to.
The north then went to war to defend the union and won the slaves freedom in return.
The South went to war to stop ONE OF THE LARGEST armies out there, aka the Northern Invaders (Yankee) and we lost.
We lost just about everything.
We did however keep our pride and ability to fight. Government couldn’t take that, but sure like to use it.
(in the Armed Forces)
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
You would be very hard pressed to find a quote from a single Southern leader of the time that would agree with that.
I believe the war was not about slavery and never was.
Then what was it about? What was the cause of the bickering and backstabbing you speak of?