I really enjoy the history threads, especially the War Between the States, as that's where the majority of my knowledge is. My reason for starting another discussion was merely to get others thoughts regarding A, was the war necessary? and B, was Sherman's March necessary? Funny how these things always turn into a whizzing contest. You'd think I'd know better. 7mm
Think of the total irony of it, Lincoln went total war, throwing off all moral restraint, tossing Augustine to Grotius in the trash to what proposed end? To force the secessionist back into a brotherly union of states, "pinned together with bayonets"???
You will be my kith kin and brother or I will rape plunder burn and enslave you.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.
