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I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
-- James Longstreet, at Gettysburg

Southern States Secede

Secession fever hit the South after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The South considered Lincoln's Republican party victory in the 1860 presidential election as a sign that the North was now going to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery. For the South, the time of talk and compromise had ended. In December, 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Secession of the rest of the states that would make up the Confederate States of America occurred in two waves.
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Civil War Veterans

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Thursday, November 11, 2010- Leave a Comment

“The Civil War is in the present, as well as in the past.”

Freedom is not free. Thank you to all our veterans.

Gettysburg 75th Anniversary of Civil War Veterans

Albert Woolson – Last Confirmed US Civil War Veteran

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The purpose of this Civil War blog is to help you Learn Civil War History. You are invited to read about a crucial time in the history of the United States: the Civil War. Any and all aspects of the Civil War will be subjects on this blog. Battles, leaders, soldiers, civilians, abolitionists, slaves, freed slaves, politics, politicians, civilians and their lives during the war, equipment, animals, cavalry, infantry, artillery, medicine, Rebels and Yankees, heroes, villains, and scoundrels... and all other topics of the Civil War will be discussed. Your comments and thoughts are always welcome. The Civil War is a rich, broad, fascinating, and interesting subject to learn about. So, join me and Learn Civil War History!
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"The histories of the Lost Cause are all written out by big bugs, generals and reknowned historians. Well, I had as much right as any man to write a history."
-- Sam Watkins, of Company H, 1st Tennessee of Nashville.

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
(Isaiah 2:4)