like my family grandma that is lincoln once again reiterated that no i do not want to take away anyone's slaves but for lincoln he did want to want to really they declared secession to be nothing but an illegitimate rebellion in your hands and not in mine he said is the momentous issue of civil war you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors we are not enemies but friends it was clear lincoln was ready and willing to get free about that smart so he's putting the onus on the southern states by saying that if you go ahead with this you will be the aggressive ones rather than us so he is making it seem like a defensive war um which i suppose makes even more sense because i think i think the war started when south bombard fought some sir i guess we'll get stats in a moment but that's um it's smart tactics open up a can of scat man john if he had to whether he had the support of the people however was in question in the end it was the confederates that fired the first shot as they seceded the confederate states began seizing federal u.s property throughout at the south off the coast of charleston south carolina was one such federal property fort sumter held by a measly under-supplied u.s force the confederate militia there demanded the fort surrender a request which was quickly denied and any remaining hope for a peaceful solution to the secession crisis probably then died when the confederates did this the southern south fired first the battle of fort sumter is considered to be the beginning of the american civil war many of the confederates there also considered it to be the end of the american civil war they hoped old abe would just sigh and say okay you win unfortunately for them lincoln actually said you're about to get a roundhouse to the face lincoln sent out the call for NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN volunteers signed up in droves imagine how different world history would have been if um lincoln had just accepted the southern states leaving or if the southern states have managed to achieve their independence via violent means i think there's some really interesting alternatives of history novels i'll i'll i'll um i'll have to check that out but i mean that it would change everything literally everything for some adventure and good old-fashioned f u n in the new confederate capital of richmond virginia confederate so that was really close and his cheekbones had also sent out the call for a hundred thousand men as ever for is it over yet no jimmy it's been one week is it over now no how about now if you ask that one more time i swear i will turn this army around and you'll all have to go back home to your wives and children but in particular the south near the conflict would pose a bit of a challenge how can we expect to win with a population of only NUMBER_TOKEN million against NUMBER_TOKEN million in the north and once you count us NUMBER_TOKEN million slaves you'd have NUMBER_TOKEN million great idea and these rifles have told them a minute you almost had me there yeah i can see this lincoln was that many of his top generals were getting old and were being a
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