Comparing murder and rape to the political act of succession is sort of stupid.
Secession killed 600,000 soldiers
FDR's Raw Deal caused WWII, and the deaths of 6 million. After all, if Roosevelt hadn't decimated the military budget for the WPA and other stupidity, the Germans would have never risked pissing America off with the Holocaust and WWII would have never occurred.
So we went to war with Germany because of the Holocaust?
These were men who stood shoulder to shoulder because no man wanted to go back to his town a coward.
You've been watching too many Klingon movies, Wimp.
>> During both of
Robert E. Lee's invasions of the North—the
Maryland Campaign during the fall of 1862 and the
Gettysburg Campaign the following summer—the
Army of Northern Virginia suffered serious attrition from "straggling" and desertion. Lee himself estimated that a third of his force was absent at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Some of these men were too weak to maintain the year's punishing schedule of marching, especially after the grueling campaigns from the
Seven Days through
Second Manassas. Men suffered from a critical lack of shoes, clothing, and food, and, following the campaign, Lee quickly moved to fix problems in the Confederate quartermaster department. Other soldiers deserted not for lack of supplies but because they opposed on principle Lee's decision to take the war north. Still others probably deserted with no intention of returning, even when the army returned to Virginia.
... In August 1863, following defeat at Gettysburg, Confederate president
Jefferson Davis offered a full amnesty for deserters in order to replenish the army's depleted ranks. French leaves, meanwhile, were authorized on the
company level in order to help ward off longer-term desertions.
Desertions escalated substantially in the final months of the war, as Union general-in-chief
Ulysses S. Grant finally broke through Lee's
defense of
Richmond and
Petersburg, on April 2, 1865, and sent the Confederate army west in retreat. As many as several hundred men per night fled the army even before Richmond fell. On the
march toward Appomattox, thousands more also deserted—mostly Virginians and North Carolinians, whose homes were already temptingly close.<< --- Desertion (Confederate) During the Civil War
Draft dodging and outright resistance was rampant as well, but this thread isn't about what went on during the War, Wimp. It's about the propaganda campaign that went on AFTER that War with the purpose of redefining what that War was for, Wimp. You and your Klingon GI Joe dolls are off topic.
