... The Sharp's rifle was fired by Lincoln himself, in the back yard of the White House. The confederates said "that damn Yankee gun you could load on Sunday and fire it all week". While they were mostly still muzzle loading.
Not to pick on Garvey but... The
Spencer, not the Sharps, was the first US rifle issued that used metallic cartridges, which were loaded into a 7-round tubular magazine in the butt of the gun. A popular saying of the time was you “could load it on Sunday and shoot all week.”
Anyway...
"The first casualty of war is the truth." Julie Berry
One should remember it is the winner who writes "history." Ask the Russians and Chinese.
Oh, in addition to the Texan embargo there was a successful U.S. Navy blockade of Southern ports.
If the war to end slavery was so popular why were there riots in Baltimore, New York, etc.? Why were immigrants recruited right off the ships? Not enough Northern volunteers?
If secession was "illegal" why did Lincoln push "western Virginians" to secede from Virginia? Yes, that's how West Virginia became a state in 1863.
Why did Lincoln invade Maryland? They hadn't seceded.
If the Southern POW camps were so horrible why did Lincoln end trading POWs with the CSA? Didn't he want to rescue the Northern veterans from those death camps. Maybe to leverage the South's shortage of soldiers. Ever read about the Northern POW camps? I guess Southerners didn't surrender.
If the Northern states thought the South and its culture of slavery was the epitome of evil, why didn't they buy their cotton elsewhere?
I could go on but why are you guys arguing over a war that ended over 150 years ago? Things aren't bad enough here already? Couldn't find anything else motivational?
