False True 22 Meetings were held in the White House by Southern senators to discuss secession. False True 23 Washington, prior to the outbreak of war, was more Southern than Northern. True False 24 Washington proper had been a slave trading center for years with many representatives and senators being slave holders. The typical Civil War soldier, was white, protestant, a farmer by trade, unmarried, religious, lightly educated. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
War is a terrible thing.
The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it. This site is full of trivia, stories, factual Civil War tales, battle information and things of interest about this great conflict.