Was the American Civil War necessary?

"We've decided the Civil War is a 'good war' because it destroyed slavery," says Fitzhugh Brundage, a historian at the University of North Carolina. "I think it's an indictment of 19th century Americans that they had to slaughter each other to do that. read more

Few wars are necessary. The Civil War was the result of people not wanting to be reasonable and find the means to compromise as they had done successfully from 1787 to 1860. read more

Such a war may have seemed necessary by 1861---but that was only because sectional pride and anger had passed the point of no return. We pay high tribute to the Civil War and its positive outcomes in total emancipation and holding the Union together. read more