Author Howard Ray White writes in his new “Rebirthing Lincoln” that Northern forces concentrating black refugees together in “contraband camps” promoted sickness and disease. He notes as well a smallpox epidemic “was first noted in 1862 among black congregations in Washington, DC . . . It subsequently spread south reaching epidemic levels among blacks and arriving in Texas in 1868.” This excellent and timely book is available in print or audiobook formats at www.Amazon.com.
The book helps make it clear that had the war been avoided through patience, diplomacy and a constitutional convention of States to solve their differences peacefully, the lives noted below would have been saved and the Founders’ republic perpetuated. Or perhaps two or more American republics, as Jefferson anticipated.
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At four in the morning, on the final day of the final Congress, the Corwin amendment passed.
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It could have avoided war, but it was too late. The Republican wanted war. Southerner also wanted war because they were under the impression that a) the North won't fight, and don't have the capacity to fight; b) England was fully behind them
The South were lured into attack
Absolutely and thanks.
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