Lincoln assassinated

[Paisan]

On this date in 1865, Good Friday, Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The 16th president died the next morning.

[cowboyusa]

Texas would not have stayed in the Confederacy for long I don’t think. Too independent. It would have rebelled, and become a separate nation again.

[rockrr]

Boothe did get a metal(sic) for what he did....it was bullet shaped.

[central_va]

This indicates that you are well aware that the secession of the Southern states was unjustified and was nothing but a hissy fit for losing the election.

The reason or reasons why the people of any state(s) VOTE to secede is of no concern to the rest of the USA.

[DoodleDawg]

Lee was trying to defend himself and his fellow southerners against the slaughter started by Lincoln.

Lincoln lead the fight against the rebellion started by the Confederacy and led by Lee.

Boothe should have been given a metal for what he did.

He did get some metal. Lead. In the form of a bullet fired by a Union soldier. But if you point is that he got what was coming to him then I agree.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Lincoln assassination is a cause for celebration.

[central_va]

So...Roosevelt was a mass murderer for slaughtering Germans and Japanese?

So the first Lincoln butt boy compares us Southerners to Nazis and nips. Took a while.

[patriot08]

Booth should have been honored as a hero for repaying mass murderer Lincoln.

[central_va]

The Public relations damage to the idea of independence is some of the worst damage caused by the civil war.

Agree.

[DoodleDawg]

Booth should have been honored as a hero for repaying mass murderer Lincoln.

Like I said, Booth got what was coming to him.

[central_va]

We would have been broken, divided into two separate countries, easy prey for other nations.

In 1860 the US Army was the most powerful Army in the world. The second most powerful Army was the CS Army. Your post is just plain stupid.

[Paisan]

slaughter started by Lincoln.

Lincoln did not start the war, either over slavery or preserving the union or to diminish ‘state’s rights’.

The war was started by SC militia attacking Federal property in Charleston harbor.

What happened after that and how it affected the nation’s future will long be the subject of heated debate.

[rockrr]

Try showing some common decency.

[central_va]

...been better if Booth missed his target as Lincoln’s second term would have destroyed his God like status. He would have f’ed up reconstruction even more than what actually happened as he wanted to ship all blacks to Liberia and the Caribbean.

[patriot08]

Maybe Lincoln should have. (shown some human decency)

[DoodleDawg]

In 1860 the US Army was the most powerful Army in the world.

The year before the rebellion the U.S. Army was the most powerful in the world? More powerful than the British Army? The French? The Prussian, Austrian and Russian armies? Are you serious?

[patriot08]

Finallly..somebody admits the truth about Lincoln.

[DoodleDawg]

So the first Lincoln butt boy compares us Southerners to Nazis and nips.

Considering the racial slur then perhaps the comparison was more accurate than I thought, if one goes in for Southern stereotypes that is. Far more accurate than the gender you chose for your name-calling, that's for sure.

[patriot08]

At last..a smart man

[rockrr]

He did. It’s a pitiful that you are incapable of recognizing it.

[central_va]

Booth made Lincoln both a deity and a martyr.