It was a civil war when Illinois' Governor Yates reported an "insurrection in Edgar County; Union men on one side, Copperheads on the other, they have had two battles."
It was a civil war for the Union Army when the 109th Illinois had to be disbanded because its men were Southern sympathizers. Tens of thousands more deserted when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced.
It was a civil war in Indiana when thousands of draft resisters hid in enclaves. From the governor: "Matters assume grave import, two hundred mounted armed men in Rush county have today resisted arrest as deserters . . . southern Indiana is ripe for revolution."
It was a Civil War when Williamson County Illinois seceded from the State of Illinois and was forced back in at the point of a bayonet; but that didn’t stop many of its men for attaching themselves to the 15th Tennessee Infantry in order to fight for the Confederate States of America…
It was a civil war in New York City when a draft protest turned into a rampaging mob of 70,000. That civil war lasted four days because all the available troops were at Gettysburg, fighting soldiers from another land. It was a civil war when they returned and fired into this New York crowd, killing nearly 2,000 of their own divided "community."
Civil war implies on faction attempting to take control of the government from another. The South no more wanted to take control of the government in Washington than our founders wanted to take control of the government in London England during the Revolution.
It was a civil war for the Union Army when the 109th Illinois had to be disbanded because its men were Southern sympathizers. Tens of thousands more deserted when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced.
It was a civil war in Indiana when thousands of draft resisters hid in enclaves. From the governor: "Matters assume grave import, two hundred mounted armed men in Rush county have today resisted arrest as deserters . . . southern Indiana is ripe for revolution."
It was a Civil War when Williamson County Illinois seceded from the State of Illinois and was forced back in at the point of a bayonet; but that didn’t stop many of its men for attaching themselves to the 15th Tennessee Infantry in order to fight for the Confederate States of America…
It was a civil war in New York City when a draft protest turned into a rampaging mob of 70,000. That civil war lasted four days because all the available troops were at Gettysburg, fighting soldiers from another land. It was a civil war when they returned and fired into this New York crowd, killing nearly 2,000 of their own divided "community."
Civil war implies on faction attempting to take control of the government from another. The South no more wanted to take control of the government in Washington than our founders wanted to take control of the government in London England during the Revolution.
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