Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern “insurrection.”
As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between North and South over the issue of slavery had led Southern leadership to discuss a unified separation from the United States. By 1860, the majority of the slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans, the anti-slavery party, won the presidency. Following Republican Abraham Lincoln’s victory over the divided Democratic Party in November 1860, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings. On December 20, the South Carolina legislature passed the “Ordinance of Secession,” which declared that “the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.” After the declaration, South Carolina set about seizing forts, arsenals, and other strategic locations within the state. Within six weeks, five more Southern states—Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana—had followed South Carolina’s lead.
In February 1861, delegates from those states convened to establish a unified government. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was subsequently elected the first president of the Confederate States of America. When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, a total of seven states (Texas had joined the pack) had seceded from the Union, and federal troops held only Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Fort Pickens off the Florida coast, and a handful of minor outposts in the South. Four years after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead.
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“As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between North and South over the issue of slavery…”
Wait, whaaa?
As fake and gay as the published Gettysburg address , which Lincoln never gave ….
Facts and falsehoods concerning the war on the South 1861-1865
by Edmonds, George
Publication date 1904
https://archive.org/details/factsfalsehoodsc00edmo/page/n7/mode/2up
The Empire of Fake and Gay …it begins..
“The extent of the changes to the original delivery manuscript, even months after the event, reveals that Lincoln himself was striving toward a clearer understanding of his vision of the Civil War, and of the American experiment that he had expressed on that brilliant November day. Abraham Lincoln did give a speech at the Gettysburg cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, but it was Lincoln’s revisions after returning to Washington, and our own national re-vision and renewal of the ideals he proclaimed, that continue to give us our Gettysburg Address.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/rewriting-the-gettysburg-address/
Eyewitness account Lin: coln and the Civil War in the diaries and letters of John Hay
“…. Mr. Stockton made a prayer which thought it was an oration; and Mr. Everett spoke as he always does, perfectly – and the President, in a fine, free way, with more grace than is his wont, said his half dozen words of consecration, and the music wailed and we went home through crowded and cheering streets.”
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gtsburgaddress.htm
Just finished reading….wow have we been lied to………I know, I know, but NOW I really know
What’s important is what the Address actually says.
Yes, and even before that there was fighting in Kansas and Missouri.
The admission of new States was a contentious issue, whether they would be admitted as Free States or slave states.
The Mexican War was divisive in ways that tended to reinforce the North-South divisions of the U.S.
The Tariff of 1868(?) was also North- South divisive.
Abolitionists in the North had been making the Slave Lords nervous for decades.
Slavery my a**. We funded 75% of the US budget through tariffs. Should have attacked DC immediately after 1st Bull Run, captured Lincoln & executed him.
Well, there were times when the tariffs benefited large scale cotton growers, and times when they benefited no one, but Northern manufacturers thought they helped…. sometimes.
I think logistics were the deciding factor. The army of the CSA couldn’t depend on getting the materials or food they needed for a big campaign against Washington.
Still pushing the ole slavery bit eh?…….
It was about ECONOMICS and the northern states were the original Blue states in that they consumed more than they produced and it was the SOUTH that was producing….94% of tbe inhabitants of tbe south OWNED NO SLAVES!…..please do some research and stop slinging BS!…….
Wow! By the time of the Civil War, Northern manufacturers were a powerhouse of production.
They wee buying lots of cotton to feed their mills.
The slave lords grew crops to sell, and used machinery made in the North to help do it. They wanted to keep buying cheap goods from Europe.
Isn’t it amazing that only 6% of “inhabitants” of the South owned so many slaves. There were more slaves in South Carolina than there were white inhabitants… Chew on that.
BTW, some of the Black people in the South also owned slaves, and a majority of the poor white farmers were aspiring to own slaves.
Thomas DeLorenzos book The Real Lincoln…is an excellent resource and covers many aspects of the cause of the War between the States. The South was right of course. Available on Amazon.
Awesome audio book of Sam Watkins autobiography. I guarantee once you start you won’t be able to stop.
What was it you think they were “right” about?
Here’s what Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo told Brian Lamb in 2008 about Lincoln, secession, and the Sumter crisis:
Even before the CSA attacked Fort Sumter, they had already dispatched troops to Texas.
The motivation of the Slave Lords was to preserve and extend the institution of chattel slavery.
Is that what you think they were right about?
What a lot of crap.
Britain made a deal with the Southern states to buy up all their cotton production, thus cornering the
textiles industry.
Genghis Khan was order by the Bankers Cabal to stop it.
He sends a fleet of Union warships called the Relief Squadron to break the Souths blockade of Ft. Sumter.
The South beats him to the punch and the rest is history.
The last state to abolish slavery was Illinois in 1872.
Real public education ended on April 9, 1865 and public indoctrination began.
Dolt.