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Are you as exacting with the evidence when claiming Davis started a war to unite the South, I wonder? If Lincoln didn't provoke a fight and make sure the South fired the first shot, he sure blundered into the best possible situation for his purpose. That's certainly possible, but it seems very unlikely to me.
Andersonh1, I've posted the following response to several of your posts like this one, and yet you continually ignore it. Could you please tell me how you interpret this?:
'It is scarcely to be doubted that for political reasons the U.S. Govt. will avoid making an attack so long as the hope of retaining the border states remains. There would be to us an advantage in so placing them that an attack by them would be a necessity, but when we are ready to relieve our terrritory and juridsdiction of the presence of a foreign garrison that advantage is overbalanced by other considerations.'
- Jefferson Davis to Braxton Bragg, April 3, 1861
Source: <<http://books.google.com/books?id=7j1rLgwgO-4C&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85
- Jefferson Davis to Braxton Bragg, April 3, 1861
Source: <<http://books.google.com/books?id=7j1rLgwgO-4C&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85