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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Dec 6 21:16:39 2018, in response to Re: Boycott (was:Tour of funeral train), posted by AlM on Thu Dec 6 19:58:12 2018. The Confederacy was preparing for war as soon as the first states broke away from the Union. I don't see Davis, Stephens, or Lee advocating a policy of nonaggression, not with a known Abolitionist in the White House. Lincoln's election was a catalyst for secession, because even as early as 1859, it was generally understood that one of Lincoln's first-term objectives was to end slavery.Lee, in fact, knew full well that war was coming. At its beginning, he was the superintendent of West Point. Many of the commanders in both armies were, by and large, his own students. Fully aware of this, he still refused Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army, and marched off to fight for slavery, against the veryofficers he, himself, had taught the art of war. A civil "Cold War" was never even remotely possible. |
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