Yesterday's New York Times entry in its "Disunion" series looking at events 150 years ago leading to the Civil War is based on diary entries by a Virginia slave owning farmer, Daniel W. Cobb.
Cobb, a barely literate secessionist, seems to have had misgivings about what was to come. Though he supported secession, one of his main concerns was personal: “I am with in a fiew months of 50 Years of age, they cant make me Bare [sic] armes.”
In 1861, this barely literate Virginia farmer clearly understood what present day elected officials and Supreme Court justices have forgotten: soldiers bear arms, not civilians.
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