Quote:I honestly believe that we cannot in good faith stand here today and judge the actions of the actors of the Civil War. The politics, the landscape, even the basic understanding of the Constitution itself were so different from what we experience that we have no real frame of reference. I don't believe that Lincoln, Lee, Davis, Sherman, et al were bad people doing bad things, they were simply people of their times. Yes, the federal government did things they should not have, and yes, the South was fighting for the right to continue slavery. Those issues were decades old by the time the war broke out, it's a shame that it took so much bloodshed to do the right thing.