[ought-six]

Oh, how different things would have been had there never been a War. I have always bee of the position that the War was the greatest tragedy this country even suffered. I've always said I wish things never would have got to that point. But I've also always saud that I understand why the South did what it did, and did what it felt it had to do. I just wish things could have been worked out so that it never got to that point.

[Ditto]

But I've also always saud that I understand why the South did what it did, and did what it felt it had to do.

Why was that?