Reply #60: Out of all the people to blame the Civil War on,

[Yupster]

why do you lay 376,000 deaths onto Jefferson Davis?

Out of all the people of the era, Davis stayed in Washington working on a compromise in the senate to keep the southern states in the union after almost everyone else gave up.

Then when the southern government was formed in Montgomery, Davis was one of the few southern politicians who stayed home.

He sure didn't want or expect to be president of the Confederacy.

He made his mistakes, but led the best way he could. He was ompletely uncorruptible and worked tirelessly to do the job he was elected to do.

Out of all the hotheads and uncompromising pricks of that era, I'd think you could find someone better to single out than Davis.