History Forum / War History / US Civil War / July 2006

Has there ever been a study made as to the effects on Lincoln and the
union if the north had pulled out of Ft.Sumter before they were
attacked? Would this have damaged Lincoln and his administration?
Perhaps the four upper southern states would have remained in the

Early in the war many top officials and others thought the war would
only last six months or less. On what did they base this assumption?
Did they think that the South with all of its hatred would simply come
back into the union? Did they think the Union would just say let them

Was moving the capital to Richmond necessary to get Virginia into the
CSA?
Did not having the CSA capital so near the USA border and especially so
near Washington encourage the USA to feel just one victory in Northeast

jfe@ams.org wrote:

 Okay.
 The Lincoln Administration had to set

I stumbled across this website and it looked rather interesting. Curious
about what others think. Idea seems to be that anyone can write a guided
tour of some place and they will record it, sell it, and send you a chunk of
the receipts. They are asking for writers and mention ...

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:43:47 CST, "Alfred Montestruc"
<montestruc@gmail.com> wrote:

In 1860 there were some four million slaves in the United States. How
many of them were brought from Africa and other places. How many were
the result of procreation?---Paul

What if in the USA constitutional convention in 1787 a
prominentdelegate had got up and said "we have some unfinished
business, and if we don't finish it Isee our grandchildren engaged i a
horribvle bloody civil war. Does a statehave a right to leavethe union

It has been stated that Virginia had a loyal governor and legislature
during the war. How was it possible for the state to be taken out of
the union and joining the the confederacy---Paul