On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:00:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

It is a great program Greg. I took interest in it when it came out. I had 3 2xgreat grandfathers that fought in the bloody thing. A 2xgreat uncle too!

I was surprised at how much anti-war activities there were in the
north. According to Burns, most of them also were not really believing
this war was over slavery. They sounded like the soldiers the US has
sent off to fight in other people's civil wars. They were not sure why
they were there, they just went because they were told to go by the
government.
The most common given by the southerners for why they were fighting
was because the union soldiers had invaded them. Again, that could
have been written today of some of our misadventures.

It really sounded like three quarters of a million people may have
died for a war that didn't have to be fought. I think slavery would
have fallen from it's own weight and the union would have come back
together ... but I have always had that opinion.