[jmacusa]

1864 is a far cry from 2014. The South took up arms against the duly elected government of the United States(that constitutes armed rebellion, treason) with the intention of preserving slavery and expanding it into Kansas which at the time was applying for statehood. Dance around that fact Mrs. Don-o all you want , you’re entitled to your own opinions, all of us are. We are not however entitled to our own facts. The South ‘’opened the ball’’, in the parlance of the day, they fired the first shots in a war they had every intention of winning and in the they lost. deal with it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I did not even address the causes which precipated the war. I am an adopted Southern Appalachian (though in the part of the region which swung against the Confederacy: Upper East Tennessee, a hotbed of dixie abolitionism): and I'm for that, if that matters.

I was addressing only the strategic destruction of civilian society, as carried on by Sherman. This is a war crime, no matter what the political or social forces which led to the formation of the CSA.