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Originally posted by strother
These are all well-informed (or good-humored) posts. My curiousity isn't about the actual causes of the war -- one would expect that a war that kills millions and millions would not have simple causes -- rather, I am curious about popular thought. Here in Texas (which some Texans fancy to be part of the Deep South!), some people call it the "War of Northern Aggression."
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The South originally was going to fight a defensive war. Keeping the Federal troops at bay.....but since the North had so few good commanders....most of the US General Staff were from the South.....the South kept kicking the Feds ass....
Check out Bull Run and Bull Run part deux....the philosophy later changed with the economic embargos, the blockade and the lack of European intervention when the cotton was shut off.
It was a stupid war of pride....made worse by the profiteers....