[Neoliberalnot]

Every tyrant who wins a war always paints a rosy picture of himself and vilifies the defeated.

[rockrr]

...and the losers write the mythologies.

[donmeaker]

Jeff Davis wrote fiction.

Sorry you don’t read history

[BroJoeK]

Neoliberalnot: "Every tyrant who wins a war always paints a rosy picture of himself and vilifies the defeated."

But regardless of how you spin it, there is still a difference between truth and fiction.
The truth of the Civil War is that:

1. Deep-South slave-holding secessionists first unlawfully declared disunion (December 1860 through June 1861), then

2. Rebelliously seized dozens of major Federal properties (December 1860 through May 1861), see post #272 above, then

3. Started war by military operations to seize the Federal Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861), then

4. Formally declared war on the United States (May 6, 1961) and then

5. Throughout the Civil War invaded and sent military forces to operate in every Union state and territory they could reach -- more than a dozen, all told, see post #267 above.

So blame for starting (and losing!) civil war, and all that meant, belongs to the leaders of the Confederacy, especially Jefferson Davis.