/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17364588]

Good books that paint a true picture of the American Civil war. I know very little about it but couldn’t help feeling such an emotional attachment to the struggle of this civil war after watching the Battle of the crater from Cold Mountain. Scene gave me chills

[Anonymous No.17364607]

>>17364588
This is just a /pol/his/ thread in disguise asking for the (((truth))) behind the civil war. You know what rhymes with civil war? Wooden door.

[Anonymous No.17364625]

>>17364607
No I just want a book that doesn’t rant endlessly about the Union being morally superior due to slavery

[Anonymous No.17364980]

>>17364625
>Union being morally superior due to slavery

As if slavery was just the happenstance that made the North "in the right"? The north didn't even want to start the war anyway, they wanted to preserve the union. That's why shit like Uncle Tom's Cabin was knocked by people like mf Lincoln because he knew shit stirrers would only make a more bloody conflict. You can't read a book on the civil war, a conflict with an obvious "right side and wrong side" and bitch and moan about how it talks about why the right side was, y'know, the right side?

[Anonymous No.17365016]

>>17364980
Slavery was morally wrong.
Emancipation was morally right.
Industrialism was morally wrong.
Agrarianism was morally right.

Things are always more complicated than black and white, anon.

[Anonymous No.17365039]

>>17364588
I’m on volume 3 of pic related. I believe this is the definitive resource. It is so fucking good I can’t put it down. 3,000 pages detailing every major battle and political action, written by a Mississippian 100 years later

[Anonymous No.17365046]

>>17364980
>>17364625
>>17364607
The war was inevitable due to different cultures interpretation of American freedoms. The union having military bases in southern seceded territory was the powder keg

[Anonymous No.17365050]

>>17364980
>The north didn't even want to start the war anyway,

[Anonymous No.17365070]

>>17365039
Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.17365123]

>>17364588
The United States had reached a point where it was hard to justify the continuation of slavery from a moral standpoint. The South was economically dependent upon free labor and ending slavery would (and did) doom the South financially. People who are sympathetic to the Southern cause argue it wasn't about slavery, but state rights even though a good chunk of the Confederate Constitution talks specifically about slavery. The South then figured out that if you just throw blacks in jail you can force them to work for free anyways. The end.

[Anonymous No.17366312]

>>17364588

Confederates save pregnant Anne Frank

[Anonymous No.17366448]

>>17365039
this, it's the American equivalent of Decline and Fall