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living in 1860 had any framework for understanding what this country was about ready to be plunged into.

If you take the number of people who were killed in the Civil War as a proportion of the entire

population and then apply that to our population today, you're looking at about 7.6 million people dead at the end of the war.

This is part two of our series on the Civil War, and it's about Abraham Lincoln,

the secession of the states and the Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

I learned that both of these guys aren't exactly who I

thought they were. William Faulkner once famously said, the past is never dead. It's not even

past. And in the last episode, we established that this war was unique in American history,

continuing to play a role in society

unlike any before or since. We learned the prosperity of the South, fueled by the most valuable

commodity on Earth at the time. Cotton was the engine behind this division between the industrial

north and the agricultural south.

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