Not necessarily, I am a southerner (Texan actually) and I think both sides were wrong. Slavery was wrong and horrible, so was the Civil War and reconstruction was monsterous. Lincoln was president and he should have been able to settle the dispute before it came to war and he certainly was responsiable for reconstruction.
Reconstruction didn't start until well after Lincoln's assassination.
“Not necessarily, I am a southerner (Texan actually) and I think both sides were wrong. Slavery was wrong and horrible, so was the Civil War and reconstruction was monsterous. Lincoln was president and he should have been able to settle the dispute before it came to war and he certainly was responsiable for reconstruction.”
Hey, Texas Sharpshooters were sure considered Southerners during the war! ;^)
I agree. This never should have come to a war. Every other civilized nation managed to do it without killing and destroying half their countries.
There was a “time line” that had to be met, though and it had to be done the 20 or 30 years earlier than it took everyone else (where have I heard THAT one before) and it couldn’t wait any longer ... too bad we couldn’t work up such ferocity over a couple of million dead babies a year.
Besides, the North thought it was going to be a cakewalk ... cripes, they came out with picnic baskets and brought the families to watch the nasty “Rebels” put in their places.
I think that even if though it did come to a war, Second Manassas should have told everyone that there HAD to be a better way. There was no turning back from the Republican Party Platforms of 1856 and 1860, however. They were going to do this, hell or high water. Both sides should have known better.
It was HELL.
First of all, the war started before Lincoln was sworn in. Secondly, Reconstruction came after he had been assasinated.
Care to try for strike three?