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Both North and South believed strongly in republican values of
democracy and civic virtue. But their visions were diverging. Each side
thought the other was aggressive toward it, and was violating both the
Constitution and the core values of American republicanism. The
following pages are of period pictures, actual artifacts found at battle
sites, my thoughts and some period music.

Welcome to my civil war pages. Indeed it is a most noted period in our history, if not the bloodiest. At the end it
took the lives of over 3% of our population at that time. Of all the wars fought, to this day it would be the costliest in
terms of human life.
The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex issues of slavery, politics, disagreements over the scope
of States' rights versus federal power, expansionism, sectionalism, mob wars, economics, modernization, and
competing nationalism of the Antebellum period. Although there is little disagreement among historians on the
details of the events that led to war, there is disagreement on exactly what the relative importance of it was. There
is also no consensus on whether the war could have been avoided, or if it should have been avoided. One thing
for sure these were troubling times for all.