More than six hundred thousand men died in the conflict.
If you want to find out what started the Civil war, you can look at Wikipedia, or open a history book, and you'll get a satisfactory answer.
It's worth keeping in mind that history is written by the winners.
Well, now the victors have decided that the terms signed at Appomattox, and assented to by our institutions since then, are no longer valid. The symbols that long softened the shame of The Lost Cause are to be burned in the pyre of America's Great Cultural Revolution.
The symbols can no longer be said to stand for valor, bravery, brotherhood, and chivalry. They have been reduced to mere symbols of slavery.
Countless Southern boys carried the rebel spirit into battle in service to the Union, subsequent to the Civil War. Their blood was shed at Anzio, Belleau Wood, Chosin, Da Nang, and in countless other battles.
Even the Stars and Bars and the Confederate Battle Flag are being lowered.
The what then? question is being answered, and it's not pretty. Activists replaced a Robert E. Lee statue in Baltimore with a statue of a black pregnant woman. That aesthetic nightmare was rightly ripped down.
The ritual purification of the public square includes Father JunÃpero Serra, who established twenty-one missions in California. These were the first settlements of Europeans in California. Father Serra's statue in Mission Hills was vandalized.
Tear them all down if you want. Follow the Third Commandment and don't allow graven images, I won't argue. But these people are convinced they are on the right side of history, and that even the most degenerate images are better than heritage.
It's like hell on earth, now.
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