I recently tweeted the top 10 facts your State school never told you about Lincoln’s war (the “Civil” war). After I finished I realized number 8 was duplicate. So I deleted 4, and mentioned it under 5.
Here are the top 10 facts ,with some expatiation via bullet points now that I’m not limited to 140 characters.
10. The civil war was not a civil war; those are between men within ONE nation. The CSA was a duly formed nation that was invaded by the hostile US.
I may expand more on this later, but for now it’s a simple point worth pondering. This is why Confederates hated the term Civil War. The name itself is a term given by the Northern victors. Someone once wrote, “no conquered people ever wrote the accepted history of the conquest.”
