US heading for civil war

[Adrianv2]

Hoping Iran nukes Israel.

[Your Old Comrade]

Most Southerners did not have slaves. The brave soldiers were not fighting for the rich "masters". They saw the Union soldiers attack and invade their homes. I would fight them too.

They , effectively, were fighting for their rich masters as those who owned more than 20 slaves didn't have to enlist and often didn't.

[Anglo-Celtic]

They , effectively, were fighting for their rich masters as those who owned more than 20 slaves didn't have to enlist and often didn't.

Nonsense. They, in *reality*, fought for their states when tyrants attacked them.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Hoping Iran nukes Israel.

Wow! What a nice Christmas message for our Savior's birthplace.

[Smaland]

William T. Sherman was a Union general who became a war criminal during the Civil War. He said that "war is hell", but people have used this as an excuse for making war upon Southern civilians, including women and children. The photo is from the Wiki article about him.

One of my ancestors was a young woman who lived in North Carolina with her children. As Sherman's forces advanced through this state in 1865, some of his marauders destroyed my ancestor's house and her crops. Without the charity of neighbors, she and her children would have starved.

[Svevlad]

"I hope both sides have fun!"

I also hope that it happens only after I get rich and form my own Wagner style PMC... This is a surprise tool to help us later

[Anglo-Celtic]

William T. Sherman was a Union general who became a war criminal during the Civil War. He said that "war is hell", but people have used this as an excuse for making war upon Southern civilians, including women and children. The photo is from the Wiki article about him.

One of my ancestors was a young woman with children who lived in North Carolina with her children. As Sherman's forces advanced through this state in 1865, some of his marauders destroyed my ancestor's house and her crops. Without the charity of neighbors, she and her children would have starved.

James Fitzgerald married a rich woman who had slaves, and they became "my Black people" who were given a hundred acres of land in his will. He fought in the War of 1812, and his Irish dad fought in the Revolutionary War. His son (my great-etc. grandpa) fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. I descend from James and his second wife (not his rich first wife), and he was a victim of Yankee bandits who robbed and murdered him when he was alone and old, and they paid a heavy price for their crimes.

The Crime Is Here:
Enter "East Tennessee 1865 "an eye for an eye" in a search engine. I linked to the forum entry, but it had gremlins and went to some other part of the Civil War forum.

[Your Old Comrade]

Nonsense. They, in *reality*, fought for their states when tyrants attacked them.

That's why it caused such resentment when the poor were drafted and the rich exempted. There is no noble lost cause. It was a class war. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Your Old Comrade]

"I hope both sides have fun!"

I also hope that it happens only after I get rich and form my own Wagner style PMC... This is a surprise tool to help us later

The rest of the world be like:

[Anglo-Celtic]

That's why it caused such resentment when the poor were drafted and the rich exempted. There is no noble lost cause. It was a class war. Nothing more, nothing less.

Varied people had varied reasons, which was just human nature. The sun rises in the east.