If you were lucky enough to have only part of your arm blown away, your chances of dying improved to 24 percent. The mortality rate for hip amputations was about 83 percent. If you were shot in the arms or legs, you got an amputation, and you might die anyway. The Minie ball caused horrific injuries - if you were shot in the head or body, you died. Yes, the United States government ultimately wanted all that Black Hills gold, but the larger issue was that they didn't care who they had to stomp all over to get it.Īccording to research from Ohio State University, amputation was the most common battlefield surgery, not because bloodthirsty surgeons over-diagnosed the need for it, but because of the adorably-named "Minie ball" everyone was getting shot with. South Carolina's Charleston convention specifically blamed "the non-slaveholding states" and their refusal to enforce the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act as one of its reasons for secession, along with the election of Abraham Lincoln, "whose opinions and purposes are hostile to Slavery." So on some superficial level you could say the war was about "state's rights," but that's a little bit like saying that the Battle of Little Bighorn was about mineral rights. According to historian James Oliver Horton, the evidence comes directly from historical documents such as letters and speeches, many of them written by Confederate leaders and supporters. Southerners, like everyone, want to view their history and heritage with pride, and that's pretty hard to do when that history and heritage has a deeply ugly side to it.īut the real cause of the Civil War has never really been under dispute. In a way, the reasons behind the argument (that the Civil War was actually about state's rights and not about slavery at all) make a certain kind of sense.
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