re: Short video showing the daily frontlines and boundaries during the War Between the States

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But when the North invaded the South, Americans in the South stood up and fought for their home, neighbors and their state.

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The South started the American Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter, a Federal installation. President Lincoln bent over backwards to avoid war, but he was not going to allow the South to break up the Union. Read the declarations of secession promulgated by the seceding Southern states. They as much as said that they were seceding to protect the institution of slavery, "their way of life." The planter class, who ruled in the South at the time, led the South into secession from the Union. And a large portion of the white population that did not own slaves, were nevertheless thoroughly propagandized by the time of the Civil War against freeing the slaves. The pro-slavery propaganda in the South warned whites about "what would happen" if the 4 million slaves in the South were freed at once, alleging that the freed slaves would take revenge on whites, rape their women, etc. etc. etc. So it's a mistake to assume that non-slave-owning southerners fighting in the Confederate armed forces were neutral on the issue of slavery. They certainly were not. Also, a lot of whites who did not then own slaves, ASPIRED to own them, and thus were in favor keeping slavery legal.

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assume if the Federal government invaded Louisiana and started shooting at your family and friends you would help the Feds?

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Wait... what... thats really your comparison

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The South started the American Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter, a Federal installation.

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Serious question: are you deliberately ignoring that the shot happened months after succession?

That it was after months of talks and peace delegations to pay for federal properties and allow for peaceful removal of federal units and their gear?

That the timing of the shot was literally the day before the arrival of a full battle fleet being sent to allow for the landing of cargo vessels to resupply and reinforce the fort for full war, the removal of which would spill much more blood on both sides (no one died in the “battle”)

You are either ignorant of these facts, or you are choosing to ignore them in a factually accurate but untruthful condensed statement.

Chenier Plain bawwww. Neva got taken

Secession was not constitutional. The pro-slavery people that you are so vigorously defending tried to break up the United States over their precious "right" to own human beings (just so you know the figures you seem to be so proud of). And many, many people at the time felt that had they allowed the South to secede, that would just be the beginning of the end of the Union. The American Republic then was still very young and was still considered a radical experiment by most of the world, which was still largely ruled by monarchies and aristocracies. The breakup of the Union was a very real possibility, and is why many men in the North forth so vigorously to defend it against the secessionist traitors in the South.

And just FYI, Lincoln and the Republican Party had a plan to end slavery that was very generous to the slave-holding states. Ironically, the decision by the Southern ruling planter class to go to war to defend the institution of slavery very likely actually hastened its demise long before it would have ended had there been no American Civil War. The plan to end slavery that the Republican Party had at the time would have ended it gradually and with compensation to slave owners. Bruce Levin makes a good case in his book, The Fall of the House of Dixie that slavery would have lasted in the U.S. much longer than it did had the war not happened, possibly even into the early 20th Century.

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Secession was not constitutional.

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Not until after the civil war. Texas v white is what decided secession is unconstitutional. You, of course, know this.

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The fact remains that there was no "right to secede" written into the U.S. Constitution.

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And the facts remain there was nothing in the constitution saying you CANT secede. You, of course, know this as well.

You wanna play semantics, I’m down, grandpa.

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know you are so sad that your precious South lost it's right to own human beings, but try to move on.

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Link?

I think slavery is horrible. I’ve always thought this. The north had the right to own slaves longer than the racist south. I know, that horrible fact is a tough pill to swallow. But “they weren’t the real north”

The civil war was a pointless war. The split could have, and should have, been a peaceful one. Slavery was on its way out and would have been phased out naturally within the coming decades with the absolutely near vertical technological advancement that was underway.

I’m just throwing wrenches all up in your arguments

It’s okay, grandpa.

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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

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That sounds alot like the the 10th amendment.... included in the Bill of Rights... signed by Thomas Jefferson, among others.

I will always contend the war was lost in Atlanta.