You yankees had gallant soldiers for sure. I honor them as much as I honor our own southern troops. We were brothers in a bloody fight against each other. I have a lot of mixed feelings about that war and what it meant.
First, we should have never created a market or brought people here against their will. It was wrong and created so many problems. And we are still paying for it today. And both the north and the south were complicit in it. Northern ships, northern money brought the slaves to work on Southern plantations. All wrong.
It was a different time back then, more rough and violent to others. If you read about the raiders in the Missouri, Kansas part of the country.
But this war pushed down the states being independent coming together to be united. It made the federal government all too powerful which we are paying for today. Lincoln was not an enemy of the south--he loved all of america, but what happened after he died and the war, sure made it feel like he was the enemy. And the federal government becoming too powerful was through him first. He is one to be admired for his strength of character.
Hats off to all the Northern and Southern troops that fought in that war. They all fought for what they believed in. And you have to honor those that will leave their homes, put their treasure and lives on the line for that. I have to say though, I still look at it as the "war of northern aggression"
