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The Civil War ... America Survives

"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side."

-- Abraham Lincoln

This statement by President Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War reflects Abraham Lincoln's belief in a power higher than man along with his love and concern for this great country of ours ..the United States of America.

Seemingly.. most people believe that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.

The reality is slavery was an incident in the time of this great conflict..but states' rights was a cause along with economic and political factors.

America was already under law to respect the slaveholders' rights as they stood. It was the rights the southern states believed they held regarding the expansion of their right to slave holding into the new territories of the time that was causing serious rifts between North and South.

These rifts combined with the tariffs set following the economic crash in 1858 plus the clash of political figures set the stage for the attack by the Confederate army on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C. in the spring of1861... and...like a bolt of lightning out of a darkening sky, war burst upon the American landscape , climaxing decades of bitter wrangling and pitting two vast sections of a young and vigorous nation against each other.

 Northerners called it the War of the Rebellion, 

Southerners the War Between the States.

We know it simply as the Civil War.

In the East, beginning in the spring of 1861, the cry from Union headquarters was "On to Richmond!"

For the next four years a succession of Northern commanders struggled desperately to do just that -- get to Richmond, Virginia ..the Confederate States' capitol.

Both sides came to see the enemy army as the proper goal, and both recognized the obligation of the enemy army to defend its respective capital city against military threats.

The consequence was four years of war fought to the death mostly in a relatively small strip of Virginia countryside between Washington and Richmond.

When the guns were finally silenced in the spring and early summer of 1865 and the authority of the Federal Government was once again restored, the Union had been permanently scarred.

As Mark Twain put it, the war had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old ... transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations."

America survives... and has proven over and over again its ability and resilience to survive.

Explore this site for momentoes...relics..artifacts from the Civil War.