I Have a Few Questions

[My Name Is Kate]

(11-21-2012 10:43 AM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  Wow, Kate, sounds like you're working on a thesis paper for college?

I am well past college age! The only books I have read on this forum's subject are "Alias Paine", and one other book, a long time ago when I may not even have been in my teens. It might have been "The Day Lincoln Was Shot". I remember very little about the latter book except that it described Lewis Paine as a "towering brute". That was exactly what I wanted at the time...a sort of "hit man" that I could sic on all the nasty people who were making my life miserable. I used to keep a sepia picture of him because it made me feel safer. I don't know what made me think of him again after 35 years or so, but when I did, I started reading another forum similar to this one, then I finally found this board a few weeks ago.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that Lewis was actually a pretty decent guy and came from a good family. Then I started thinking about other things, like, what exactly were the Southerners fighting for, besides slavery? Whenever the Civil War is mentioned, I've always heard that the South was fighting for the right to keep their slaves, and the North was opposed to slavery and wanted to keep the Union together. It didn't seem to add up. So I did an internet search and found this article, which is pretty much the sum total of what I now know about what caused the Civil War.

http://www.ket.org/civilwar/causes.html

Looks like I have alot more reading to do to get in-depth answers to my questions. I will probably have more questions. Thanks for all the replies.