The historical revisionism on FR is strong.
The first blood drawn in the Civil War was in Union territory. Pro-slavery forces killed four Union soldiers in Baltimore. See the Pratt Street Massacre.
Furthermore, Union troops had always occupied Ft. Sumter in South Carolina prior to the Civil War. I honestly don't know where you're going with this.
It’s clear to anyone with a moderate degree of intellect that Lincoln wanted to subjugate the south. Slavery was simply the method to garnish public support.
Then civil war was the beginning of the end. The US has gone downhill since.
There were a few sunlit moments, but Lincoln served power above all else, and now we have what we have.
The wrong side won.
As a disclaimer, I’m not a southerner.
Yes it is, and you are one of the people doing it.
The first blood drawn in the Civil War was in Union territory. Pro-slavery forces killed four Union soldiers in Baltimore. See the Pratt Street Massacre.
I cannot speak to this because I have no knowledge of it other than to point out that Baltimore was in Maryland, which was a Union state.
Furthermore, Union troops had always occupied Ft. Sumter in South Carolina prior to the Civil War.
And this is completely untrue. Ft. Sumter had *NEVER* had a garrison until Major Anderson in the dark of a December night in 1860 suddenly seized the Ft while it was being worked on by Contractors.
This sudden armed seizure of the fort greatly Startled the people of Charleston who regarded it as the first belligerent act of the war.