The American Civil War Then and Now is a featured post. Many years ago, I originally wrote about the Second Civil war coming to America. This was about a little after I wrote my first book D Day for America. I rewrote the article in 2017 and now we bring it back to again introduce this featured post. I pray we never do see such a thing again as that which divided America so long ago. But men forget History or fail to heed its warnings. In 2022 I republished it and edited and then added that we have a divisive country with many more threats today than ever before.
Simply put through social media, fake news, and Hollywood, we find the perfect system to pollute America with division. The tongues of men and their failure to solve issues led to the former war, but today the tongues of Americans wag their hatred and is leading us into hell! Now in 2023 headed to 2024 this divided has taken on a harsher 3rd world ideal of robbing, murders, stealing, thefts, and many other devices or schemes to take down America. Here is the American Civil War, first published in early 2000’s. This article has changed a lot from the first writing of it. Now these some 25 years later, America is still on this path and getting closer. In fact, today’s America is bitter, harsh, dangerous, and our enemies are here among us.
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The American Civil War, then and now. The point is then made, but there is no Civil War in America today. That is true, but the hatred and division is just as bad or worse than it was during the pre-war stages leading up to the Great American Civil War. Over the weekend I watched The Ultimate Civil War Series by Ken Burns. It was a particularly good documentary on the most tragic event in American History. In the beginning of the war, twenty-two million people lived in the North while Nine million lived in the south [with a substantial number of those being slaves.] In the North, there was more money and wealth; along with factories, food, railroads, and in fact the economy was greater than that of the south.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
March 4th, 1861, from Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
It is sad to say that the War of all wars that was carried out in the United States was one of brutality and bloodshed. Noted of this war as well, is the fact that during the fighting between the two sides the evidence of sheer hatred for each other existed. While both sides shared a common nation, the ability of both the North and South to kill each other was evident. More than 620,000 men died in the Civil war, with the Battle of Gettysburg being the bloodiest of all the clashes.
Here almost 52,000 men died for what they believed in. To say that all was fine when the North won the war is to say an overstatement. It took until Martin Luther King got total freedom for blacks in America. Nonetheless, it is a fact that today a virulent hatred for Whites exists today. Blacks of a new stripe are pushing hatred for whites and not letting them forget slavery. The new blacks today push this hatred through Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther party, and even throughout the Democratic party.
As slavery was the issue because Slavery was the law of the land at that time, the plight of black slaves in the South was paramount. When the war began Eleven states had seceded from the Union:
Eleven states left the United States in the following order and formed the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
The issue was slavery and the central government; here the federal branch made the issue of slavery become one that the South did not like. They felt they had a right to break away from the Union, while the Union in DC, along with Lincoln did not believe states had a right to secede. No matter, the Southern states did, and the war followed. Was it a war over freeing the slaves or a war over the political power from DC? The federal arm of the government which took its power to rule to the extent that even sovereign states had no right to break with the union.
The whole issue or issues cost more than a half million lives, billions in damage to the nation, and destruction of much of the southern infrastructure. Even today, people re-enact the greatest battles of the Civil war. Today if you are a White person and like Gen. Lee or the Confederate flag; then this nation brands you a White supremacist or worse.
The recent trouble in Charlottesville is more evidence of just how divided a nation can be. We have covered this in the past, quoting many sources and those commentators in the news; some of whom say that this nation is more divided than during the Civil War. After the trouble in Charlottesville Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson writes:
I have warned for more than 27 years that we are in a spiritual battle of good versus evil. White people are under attack – especially white, straight, conservative Christian men of power. The children of the lie hate them because they represent good. They love truth, freedom, responsibility, the values that make America great.
Evil already wiped out black and Hispanic men – separated them from their families and deluded their thinking. Evil, too, has chipped away at whites, the last men standing in the way to stop evil from completely taking over America.
But white men have forsaken their responsibility to lead their wives and children in the right way, and to tell the truth in the world without anger, fear or apology.
Instead, white men take a timid, people-pleasing, apologizing approach toward their wives in the home, and toward angry blacks and others in the world. Their fear and weakness toward the children of the lie only makes them a greater target for evil.
Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson
It is important to note that this Pastor is black and has warned for many years of those within the black community who are bigoted and full of hate. He notes that anger is out of control in America today. A sentiment I agree with. Some time ago, I interviewed Jesse Lee on our Warn Radio show. His heart is to see the trouble in the black community end, especially with the fathers and male role models.
Moreover, the violence in Charlottesville is reminiscent of the Civil War and the division at that time. The town itself was eventually surrendered to Union General George A. Custer. But the fact that this town has a historical connection both to the Civil War and to the hatred that existed at that time is the background for what happened in modern America. Both history and the hatred have not gone away. The authorities blame White supremacists, but forget to also name Antifa, Black lives matters, and others who also are to blame for the violence. The fact is if we allow hatred to govern this nation then the next stop will be more violence and possibly a rehash of the Civil War today.
The problem today is that our political leaders both in DC and out of DC; from both sides of the political aisle; cannot keep their mouths shut. During the Presidency of Donald Trump, we witnessed the ongoing rhetoric, hatred, bias, and never-ending talk of hating Donald Trump which was beyond the pale. The investigations even by Mueller were designed to find fault in the house of Trump. Daily we heard from famous names and movie stars, or directors who called for Trumps ouster. Why? Because they don’t like his agenda or him. Maxine Waters, the livid and deranged democratic senator who stated that “she lives” to bring Trump down. She is a vicious, hateful, and despicable presence in the news. Yet the liberal media continues its bias, Soros continues his funding of liberal left wing anti-Trump groups, and former President Obama pushes his agenda out to stop Trump. They failed in removing Trump from his four years as President. But they did steal the election of 2020. See Dinesh Desouza’s 2000 mules for proof.
I personally call for peace and not war. But even during the Civil War years, it was evident that cool heads did not prevail. The issues were too hot to handle, so the discussion stopped and then war began. One day soon, if Americans cannot learn to be civil, and polite to each other; then the trouble in this nation will be far worse. Although many have differing opinions; we can disagree agreeably. We must stop this division and rhetoric, yet we need the leaders of this nation on all sides to understand that they are part of the problem. Shut your mouth, button your lips, and be nice!
If not, then the next Civil War we will have in this nation will be much, much worse than the division and deaths from 1861-1865 that occurred the last time this nation could not solve its problems with mere discussion and cool heads.
Was the Civil War worth it?
In cost of freedoms, the blacks never fully gained their freedom for many years. Even then, it was again; the push by Martin Luther King that put the goal of total freedom at hand for all blacks. Yet, in bloodshed and in politics, the cost was astronomical and even today it is a part of our history that shall never vanish from our consciousness.
After four years of conflict, the last major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States in April of 1865. The war bankrupted the South, left its roads, farms, and factories in ruins, and all but wiped out an entire generation of men. More than 620,000 men died in the Civil War, more than any other war in American history. The southern states were occupied by Union soldiers, rebuilt, and gradually re-admitted to the United States over the course of twenty difficult years known as the Reconstruction Era.
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The real question was all that war, bloodshed, and death worth it? Could we not of handled it a different way? Can we not solve our own problems with such violence and hate?
If history is a determining factor in America, then the answer is a sad NO we cannot learn nor solve our problems peaceably!
A warning from James on just how dangerous the tongue of man or woman can be is apropos now!
Jas 3:5-9
(5) Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
(6) And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
(7) For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
(8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
(9) Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
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Thanks Watchman…yes, it is the acidic tongue which is poisoning the atmosphere in America to day. The hatred is worse than in the 1860s because of the constant drum beat of acidic tongues on all of the tv shows/news/internet. The commie financier of this America hating movement just had his birthday, the day of the Charlotsville riot, which he funded. This will not stop, because there are far too many demon driven haters in America…it is only going to get worse. I do follow Rev. Jess Lee Peterson from time to time (I just watched him on youtube last week). He is a Godly man, a man of courage, and keen insight. Too many haters in America today, simply will not listen to sound reason. The Lord’s peace to you and Tower…Amen.
Yes George, there are good men; Christians of all races that are standing up; but the demon driven, as you say, continue and outnumber the good. But we trust in the Lord… Blessings George to you and yours; The Watchman n Tower