In his 1994 essay, “Just War,” Murray Rothbard concluded: “[I]n this War Between the States, the South may have fought for its sacred honor, but the Northern war was the very opposite of honorable.  We remember the care with which the civilized nations had developed classical international law.  Above all, civilians must not be targeted; wars must be limited.  But the North insisted on creating a conscript army, a nation in arms, and broke the 19th-century rules of war by specifically plundering and slaughtering civilians, by destroying civilian life and institutions so as to reduce the South to submission.  Sherman’s … Continue reading Murray Rothbard on Tearing Down “Civil War” Statues