1. The Federals attacked the Southern States with 75,000 troops after Ft. Sumter was fired on because it was being resupplied, which Lincoln promised not to do. Who is the aggressor here? The Federals. Lincoln.
2.Applying present-day turmoil on 140 year old history is utter bullsh*t....leftwing NAACP post-9/11 claptrap labelling Confederates as "terrorists". More anti-Southern propaganda that I take strong exception to......
3.What you are totally, blissfully ignorant of is the fact that the Confederates were and ARE AMERICANS. How many Southerners do you suppose died in WTC? Where the hell do you get off comparing Confederates to the goddamned Taliban? I would begin calling names at this point had I no restraint. Your ignorance is showing. Don't let it happen again
The so-called confederate states called for an army of 100,000 men when the US Army was 18,000. And I know it galls you neo-confederate persons, but the CSA stumbled into the war by being unclever enough to fire the first shot.
Lincoln did a masterful job playing the secessionists for the fools they were, and he did a masterful job generally.
Oh, Lincoln never agreed not to resupply Fort Sumter. That's just a lie.
Walt