That is a classic Apology, a defense of wrong doing. There was no civil war, there was a war of naked un-provoked attrition, a War of Yankee Aggression upon the people of a soveriegn Constitutional Republic. Defend it all you want. It was a vile war perpetuated by a ruthless regime and celebrated to this day by ignorant people who have very twisted notions of liberty. The injustices to Union sympathyzers in East Tennessee was evil, but miniscle in comparison to the much wider scale of property destruction and murder of Southern sympathyzers and black people (many of them likey sympathyzers)---see the Contraband thread.