Casus Belli

"In 1861, the tripwire was the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Prior to that incident, Lincoln was faced with a huge political problem. A majority of the people of the North wanted to avoid a civil war. So Lincoln contrived to get the Confederates to cede the moral high ground........ Lincoln's gambit worked and the Confederacy took the bait to it's peoples' eternal sorrow. Imagine the Federal rout of the First Battle of Bull Run (SIC S/B Manassas. BT) WITHOUT the justification of Fort Sumter. The pressure on Lincoln to stop the war and negotiate would have become immense." Read more HERE.

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