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Ya know? If we had a way to have clear distinct war lines, I'd absolutely join a civil war. You're telling me these guys want to challenge us to a fight till the death? Ok.
The way I see it, either I'm fighting for a better tomorrow, or I'm dead and don't need to suffer through maga's amerikkka.
I'm good with either result.
War is a romantic notion until it arrives.
I’m sure it is documented, but I’m just thinking now if families during the civil war were as divided over politics as people are today.
My Dad loves Trump, I am on the other side. I would not fight in a war, as I would not fight against my family even though we do not agree politically.
Yes. That was a huge part of the civil war. There are volumes written from first hand perspective about families being torn apart over the war. Families meeting on the battle field, on opposite ends.
That absolutely happened back then.
Not so many books were written at the time about the families torn apart by slavery. But oh, if a family of us white people feels bad about something, that warrants a book.
What we need right now is not a war, but a million John Browns.
I'll fight against your idiot dad
Your dad is a stupid fucking piece of shit.
That’s always the problem with civil wars.
Tl;Dr:
Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.Yep. Families were absolutely split in half with brothers fighting each other in some cases. The Civil War wasn't civil at all.
Ken Burn's "The Civil War", goes over that. Clocks in at about 10 hours, and a fair bit of it is about families, letters, the political heat that lead up to the splintering, and so forth.
Absolutely, it's literally cited as the notorious "brother vs brother" war