Invasion from the North- Preface and Introduction

Yeshua said "Does our law judge any man before it hears him, and knows what he does?" (John 7:51). The history of the Civil War has been largely written, rewritten, and revised for over a century, like so many wars, by the victor. But is it fair to judge the matter without hearing both sides of the story? Back in 1961 a southern journalist named Clint Bonner sought to tell the history of the Civil War from a southern perspective. He wrote a 34 chapter book titled "Invasion from the North" relating the Civil War from a southern perspective. The book was published in serial form in installments in various southern newspapers. Bonner planned to then publish the chapters in an actual book. Unfortunately Bonner was never able to publish the book. However a friend of my mother collected all of the installments, photocopied them and gave them to her, and she placed them in a three ring binder which I inherited upon her passing away. To my knowledge this binder is the only surviving copy of this unpublished book. Recent events (states rights issues and debate over the meaning of the "Confederate Flag) have renewed interest in this topic. In this blog I will scan all of "Invasion from the North" and post it to the internet so that this other side of the story of the Civil War can be read again for the first time since 1961.