charlottesville antics

[Delirious Biznasty]

Huh, interesting. So they had support as long as they stopped slavery? I honestly thought it was more like 1. the union wanted to free slaves, 2. the confederates were like no way dude so they rebelled and then yeah 3. there is war, and the union stomped their ass.

The voting system in the US was weird at the time. There were creation of free and slave states, which helped balance the voting process so it was neither the south nor the north having more power over the other. Lincoln was a pro-abolitionist and eventually the north got enough power to where they would have always voting in who they wanted. The south, thinking this was entirely bullshit since the north was more federalist than states rights, broke away from the north. It wasn't until Lincoln went to take back a fort "rightfully the USAs" which made the south fire upon them, starting the war. Lee was a smart man and knew how to war, which was causing havoc behind the enemies lines, going in and raiding supplies and such to fuel their war effort. It was successful, but the south could only do it for so long without outside support, since their population density was so low.

Lincoln, who started this war with the intention of bringing the states back into the union, realized that if France or Britain joined, the north would be royally fucked. So, Lincoln spoke one day and said "yo, all dem slaves in the south are now free" which turned the war from a war between two nations to a righteous war on moral grounds. Since the abolition movements were strong in both France and Britain, they refused to join. 

So, since the north had more troops than the south, and a steady supply of irish and germans immigrating, Grant just kept throwing bodies at Lee until he surrendered his army. Lee would have still put up a good fight, if Gettysburg didn't cripple his army. That, as well as Sherman marching towards Savanna, a major port city in Georgia, burning every fucking city and town they see, then moving north towards the capital.