>>Bull Snipe sniped: “In war, there are two options, you win or you lose. Had the Southerners decided not to go to war. They would have been able to keep their slaves and avoided “million” deaths.”
The South was invaded.
Mr. Kalamata
If that is what is necessary to win a war, then invasion is justifiable.
Can’t invade your own country. The south was taken over by rebels. And, as George Washington did to the Whiskey rebellion, Lincoln did to the southern rebels.
Also those southern rebels committed a bunch of hostile acts, before Lincoln was even inaugurated.
December 27, 1860—South Carolina seizes Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, a Federal schooner and other Federal property.
December 30, 1860—South Carolina seizes the Federal Arsenal at Charleston.
December 31—South Carolina seizes the U.S. post office and the Customs house in Charleston.
January 3—Georgia seizes Fort Pulaski to prevent U.S. troops from garrisoning it.
January 4—Alabama seizes the US arsenal at Mount Vernon.
January 5—Alabama seizes Forts Morgan and Gaines.
January 6—Florida seizes the Apalachicola arsenal.
January 7—Florida seizes Fort Marion.
January 9, 1861—In Charleston, southern guns fire on the Star of the West as it attempts to re-supply Fort Sumter.
January 10, 1861—Florida demands the surrender of Fort Pickens (refused).
February 18, 1861—Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.
February 23, 1861—President-Elect Abraham Lincoln merely a