Hostilities broke out when the traitors attacked a federal military installation in Charleston, SC (Fort Sumter). Yes, the Civil War was about states' rights - the right of some states to allow slavery. The Civil War was about slavery, just like the Missouri Compromise, which is widely understood to have delayed the Civil War, was about slavery. If it weren't for slavery, no other issue would have risen to the point of armed rebellion. Every federal military officer that resigned his commission in order to take up arms against the United States should have been hanged by the neck until dead, especially that jackass R. E. Lee. Arlington National Cemetery was rightfully created from his confiscated property. Abraham Lincoln is our greatest president. Ulysses S. Grant is our greatest military leader. Stone Mountain outside Atlanta is a national insult and should be completely and utterly destroyed. The Civil War was about real civil rights abuses, not the imaginary ones in the deluded minds of the nickname opposition.