4 thoughts on “Civil War Documentary By Matt Walsh”

  1. I watched the whole thing. Excellent production with a myth busting summation of a war that lasted four long years. Walsh is a brilliant historian. I love his description of school teachers as ” Idiots “.

    There is a lot to take away from that video….Primarily that war has consequences and there are serious distortions with the way the civil war is taught in our school rooms. ( Or that the war between the states has been inaccurately portrayed with lies.)

    Walsh argues that mainstream education distorts America’s defining conflict, focusing heavily on primary sources to question conventional narratives regarding Union motivations, Confederate leadership, and the legacy of figures like Robert E. Lee.

  2. Walsh always does good work, though I could wish for a little more “drill down” sometimes. A couple of views expressed by those living at the time of Lincoln’s War:

    “The real causes of dissatisfaction in the South with the North are in the unjust taxation and expenditure of taxes…and in the revolution the North has effected in this government, from a confederated republic, to a national sectional despotism.” –Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860

    “The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is … not for any principle, does not touch on the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power.” –Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

    1. I think this was mostly good work, J. Sobran. There are two issues I noted. First, he doesn’t really discuss, as far as I can recall, the forces behind Lincoln and his aggressive approach. Who was so determined to prevent secession and why?

      Walsh also equivocates by– almost as an afterthought– stating that slavery was a contributing factor after having made the case that it was not.

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