Janis: Why were
Lincoln's generals so reluctant to attack the South?
GC: I believe Lee was #1 in his class at West Point. Northern generals
were no match for the Confederacy's--Lee, Stonewall Jackson, et al. McClellan
understood this and he procrastinated, tried to unseat Lincoln in the '64
election and would have made peace with the South had he succeeded. The North
eventually won by brute force--they had the money, guns, population, railroads,
etc.
JS: Why was Lincoln so
quick to commit to war??
GC: He was a politician. He followed the party line.
JS: I get so interested
in the history, I sometimes spend a whole day on it! I don't think any war has
been lied about as much as the Civil War!
GC:
Last nite, I was re-reading about the Thirty Years' War that devastated Europe
in the 17th Century--another kind of Civil War!. " All wars are lied about!
Sometimes, if enough time passes, we begin to get some truth about them. ...
Often--only more distortions!
Next day. "
JS: I'm really learning
a lot about history I never knew. Like Hamilton and the Federalists had a lot
to do with how we've evolved into this behemoth, centralized State! Andrew Jackson, too! Pretty hard to believe the "Founding Fathers"
created this nightmare, and that it was Lincoln that perfected it. The looming
question is: If this was just about slavery, why didn't the U.S. just free
the slaves and compensate the owners over a time period like all the rest of
the civilized countries did? The only answer, it wasn't about slavery! It was
about money, control, colonization, and EMPIRE!
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