Description
Many people consider that the Civil War used to be began by the Southern states on account of slavery and the issue of secession. Here the writer argues otherwise: Southerners believed that they would have the benefit of a different type of government than that of their Northern neighbors. Southerners, whose economy depended on agriculture, felt that the industrialized North passed laws and set taxes unfair to the South. On this history, Walker includes descriptions of daring raids, massive battles, and life-and-death struggles that changed one nation and destroyed any other. In between are tales of the North’s misdeeds, such as the massacre of more than 600 American Indians, the burning of Confederate hospitals, and Lincoln’s imprisonment of more than 40,000 citizens who dared to oppose him.