The Civil War as Revolution

[babela]

This journal of a graduate student in military history explores some thoughts on Abraham Lincoln as revolutionary, and whether the Civil War should be considered the second American revolution.

Abraham Lincoln as a Revolutionary
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/cogitating-on-abraham-lincoln-as-revolutionary/


The Civil War as a Revolution - Part I
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/the-civil-war-as-revolution-part-i/


The Civil War as a Revolution - Part II
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/the-civil-war-as-revolution-part-ii/

[WLM]

I have heard a lot of interesting discussion on this. Many say that the Civil War wasn't really a Civil War since it wasn't a struggle for the control of one government by two separate parties, which is how a Civil War is usually defined.

[JohhnyReb]

I think that that the war was a Civil War, and not a revolution

[LONERIDER7722]

AS WEBSTER DEFINES REVOULTION: "an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed."

DID THE SOUTH OVERTHROW? THE UNION NEVER RECOGNIZED THE SECESSION. THEREFORE THE SOUTH'S ARMING AND ORGANZATION WAS NOT A REVOULUTION IN THE EYES OF THE NORTH.

NOW AS WEBSTERS DEFINES CIVIL WAR: "a war between political factions or regions within the same country."

THE WAY I SEE IT, THE SOUTH HAD IT'S OWN POLITICAL FACTIONS, AND THE NORTH IT'S OWN.

CLEARLY A CIVIL WAR, NOT A REVOLUTION.

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[ecobeLedFiene]

Could have been shorter. I mean, when you reuse the same frames thousands of times, thats some kind of hint that maybe the clip is too long.
I hate those amateur clips that show you the same thing hundreds of times, in a supposedly funny way. Repetitive doesnt automatically equal funny. It usually equals boring.
But there are much worse examples than this, like stupid anime parodies.

[intothefight]

Many Confederates referred to the war as the Second War for Independence. They Confederates generally argued that, based upon the Declaration of Independence, when a government repressed the rights of the citizens without redress that those citizens were compelled to secede, just as their forefathers had done in the 1770's.

The Federals, based upon the titles of their regimental histories, referred to the conflict as The War of the Rebellion, The War to Preserve the Union, The War to Preserve the Constitution.

Lincoln, deliberately, never asked for a declaration of war against the brethern in rebellion to avoid recognizing the Confederacy as a legitimate government. He saw it as a conflict to preserve the Union.

The question then is, if the Union had to be preserved and the departed brethren (rebels) needed to return to the fold, was the war, then, a revolution much as the british faced during the War for Independence?

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