Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious

Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two months later, on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Union-occupied Fort Sumter off the South Carolina coast. Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious Starting but not completely reading a book... tantamount to being sacrilegious, especially when storied subject matter deals with heated issue as slavery, which essentially succinctly describes war between the states (purportedly started April 12, 1861 – and reputedly ended April 9, 1865) allegedly triggered at 4:30 ante meridian on April 12, 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event used to signify the beginning of the Civil War. Self imposed onerous obligation understanding difficult to comprehend thought provoking printed material subsequently generated system of the down overload mine (myopic) eyes see the words, but their meaning doth not compute, especially when an author chooses to write in a bewildering, style, thus "Abort, Retry, Fail?" (or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?") an error message found in DOS operating systems, which prompts the end-user for a course of action arises within sixty plus shades of gray matter within me mind. At present my fascination and interest with American history temporarily appeased, whence yours truly envisions himself a Yankee in the Antebellum North thirstily drinking information detailing one figurative chapter concerning, detailing, giving The Civil War breadth, scope, width, et cetera a narrative spanning Fort Sumter to Perryville painstakingly written by the late Shelby Dade Foote. An overactive imagination of mine easily populated with sights, smells, and sounds linkedin to that rebellion (as ascribed by Abraham Lincoln) witnessing the secession of South Carolina followed by the secession of six more states— Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas– and the threat of secession by four more— Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. Though the internecine fighting weathered the test of eighty seven years since July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, voted unanimously to declare independence as the "United States of America". Two days later, on July 4, Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress not initially formed to declare independence. Bloody battlegrounds minted hard core military men, which soldiers when not fighting sang sentimental tunes about distant love—the popular “Lorena” and “Aura Lee” (which in the twentieth century became “Love Me Tender”) and “The Yellow Rose of Texas”— and songs of loss such as “The Vacant Chair.” Other tunes commemorated victory— “Marching Through Georgia” considered a vibrant evocation of Sherman's ... March to the Sea. Some even sprouted from prison life, such as "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Soldiers marched to the rollicking “Eatin’ Goober Peas;” they vented their war-weariness with “Hard Times; ” they sang about their life in “Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground; ” they were buried to the soulful strains of “Taps,” written for the dead of both sides in the Seven Days’ Battles. When the guns stopped, the survivors returned to the haunting notes of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”