Reflections on the Civil War

Wow! It was an amazing read. The book didn't just focus on the battles and the military personalities. It really put you right there in the midst of what was going on in society at that time. I actually felt the tension and the angst that was so a part of antebellum America. He wrote with such a narrative style that you felt like you were reading a story, being caught up with all of the twists and turns.
If we think that our country today is divisive and broken, we got nothing on America in the 1850s and 60s. During the time leading up to Fort Sumter, fist fights regular broke out during sessions of Congress. During one infamous incident, a southern Congressman sensing an insult on his family honor, beat a northern abolitionist within an inch of his life with a cane. Now that's politics! That's what we need today - Congressional beatings.
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We need those days again! Then we can move to California (Schwarzenegger) or Minnesota (Ventura) and say "My governer is stronger than your governer" just like we used to say about our dads when we were young "my dad is stronger than your dad".
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