I go round and round with friends I know in the South and those very things I bring up. Plus - they call it the War of Northern Aggression. Oh? So who fired the first shots on Ft. Sumter? Who invaded the North almost to DC? (Bull Run/Manassas)? Then too, they talked about Yankee destruction. Please tell me about Andersonville and Ft. Pillow. Shuts them up every time.
It’s also been called “The War of Southern Independence’’. Independence for whom? Southern slaves? I always way hit them with ‘’It’s mighty curious to see people who call themselves conservatives venerating of bunch of Dixiecrats.’’ That one shuts them up too.
So who fired the first shots on Ft. Sumter?
A group of under age “boys” from the citadel disobeying orders. They where the ones who fired the first shots of the civil war.