[wardaddy]

I came away with the personal opinion that the root causes of the actual War were failure of leadership, on both sides

that has always been my view...and an enormous loss of good young men....and are they appreciated today?

and now we have the same problems just no slavery...the road to hell.....and all that

and the war created a Federal Leviathan that did not exist prior...is that a good thing?

i reasonable folks can debate that

[southernsunshine]

No, I don’t believe the enormous loss of life is appreciated by many today. True, the Union forces were victorious over their Confederate counterparts. But, other than slaves being freed, I don’t believe there were any winners in that war. There was no family that did not suffer loss of some type during that unholy conflict.

And yes, now we have the same problems. All these years later, and all these generations removed from that time, yet the Federal Leviathan grows ever larger. Will we ever learn?