I came to the conclusion some time back that no one group (North or South) was totally innocent here. I wish I could find the provenance to the quote that Robert E. Lee said...

"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forbearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."

My postings (no doubt) leave folk with the opinion that I forever disagree with every reason the South had for wanting to leave the Union. This would be far from the truth. But I do look at the death toll, and destruction that was left in the wake of the war, and it leaves me to ponder what one Texas Confederate Soldier said about the war when he surrendered...
"What was it all about...?"

Kevin Dally