Re: Lee's decision to resign his US Army commissio
"As for Southerners fearing the black population being "turned loose" in their midst I believe they probably did feel that way"
Jamie,
I suspect that what happened in Haiti a few years earlier could happen in the south and that would bear on their mindes. What you say about the people of the north is true also. I think that had it not been for Ft. Sumter the south might have had more sucess in leaving. FC