[Captain Peter Blood]

There is a lot more to it than that, and the North was not without blame also. I am reading “Hamilton” by Ron Cernow and so much of what happened had it's roots in the founding of the country. Excellent read and i recommend it.

[JohnBrowdie]

follow chernow’s “hamilton” up with mccullough’s “john adams”. trust me on this one.

[jmacusa]

Nope. Not buying it. The South chose a path of violent secession and lost. Men like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee have the blood of some 700,000 Americans on their hands and Lincoln never prosecuted them for what they did. Of course political expediency had a lot to do with that decision but Lincoln would have been well within the Constitution to have had them both hung. The North didn't open fire first. The South did.