Hmmm. Well....it sure is well documented in history books that the first shots of the Civil War were fired at a federal supply ship in Charleston harbor that was trying to restock Fort Sumter when cadets from The Citadel fired on it with rifles followed by volleys of cannon fire from the confederate forts on James Island and Sullivan's Island.
But.....maybe you should rewrite history.
Do you practice missing the point, or is it something that comes naturally to you?
He probably does understand that the founding fathers created a slave republic less than 90 years before the Civil War.
No.
They created a Republic in which Slavery was allowed to continue to exist.
The Northern colonies did this largely in order to secure the support of the Southern colonies for breaking away from England and sustaining that Independence.
The continuation of Slavery was the price a young America paid for Unity during its birthing and its toddler years, when it was imperative to have Unity.
But, as usual, greed, and pompousness, on both sides, got in the way, and pushed us into the abyss, and we paid the price, again, in oceans of blood.
Southerners were seduced and hoodwinked by the Big Money Boys of their times.
Northerners were seduced and hoodwinked into playing puppet and muscle for the Liberal Abolitionists of their times.
Both sides were full of shit clean up to their ears.
Common Folk on both sides of the divide routinely sided with their Home States - their families and friends and neighbors.
The Southern Cause was wrong, in the final analysis, but it was well-masked in other, loftier motives, so-called, and valiantly fought against great odds.
Bobby Lee, a greatly admired and respected professional officer in the US Army, of long and meritorious service, got the nod, to command much of Virginia's defense force.
And he did so well that he was soon catapulted to chief strategist and tactician of the main Southern host, in the East, where the main action unfolded.
He out-fought and out-generaled the North for a very long time, and damned-near pulled-off a miracle or two, as well as screwing-up royally, once or twice.
His men were willing to follow him into the Gates of Hell, if need be, and that, too, speaks volumes about the leadership and character of that great man.
He was a worthy adversary, much feared and well respected amongst his enemies, whose own opinion I'll take over that of revisionists at a distance of 150 years.
