To: wbarmy
You are confusing secession with war. The two concepts are independent of each other.
12 posted on
10/11/2017 5:45:49 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Actually, he was drawing a distinction between the two. He was suggesting that secession might have succeeded had the seceding southerners not attacked a US fort and started a war.
15 posted on
10/11/2017 6:06:11 AM PDT by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: central_va
No, it started out as a secession and Lincoln had not called for troops. The South turned it into a war which turned it into a rebellion.
Then Lincoln called for troops.
16 posted on
10/11/2017 6:07:37 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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