[DesertRhino]

His best and most moral moments were actually the ones he spent in Texas, long before the civil war. Not as flashy, but those were the ones.

[D Rider]

The civil war was a moral struggle in two parts. In the beginning, the South had the moral high ground with States Rights. After the emancipation proclamation, the north had the high ground of individual/human rights. The real tragedy of the war was that one side had to lose. Our Constitution was irrevocably damaged, and we can see the results today.