To answer your question.

1. I do not care for the Confederate governments history. I think it lacked vision and was weak. I also have a problem with its politics and how it would have evolved. A one party system is a corrupt system. I would have fought it too if it tried to take away my rights.

2. But, If I was transported back to 1861, I'd fall right in with my ancestors, and march off to battle without hesitation. Even knowing the outcome, I'd put on the gray, and suffer right along with them. Nobody is going to attack my people without paying the price. The North invading the South was not the answer to this crisis. The Old Dominion should have been appeased, and not threatened, since it was the only calming voice of reason that the lower South would have listened to. They had so many opportunities either way; and the the way to war the only path considered.

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David Upton