Wait, was the war about slavery or keeping the union together with violence and bloodshed? Confusing, Lincoln cultists never get their stories straight.
Lincoln himself said his first priority was holding the Union together.
Revisionist history rolls on.
Revisionist history rolls on.
Yes it does. How is Lincoln a Hero, yet George III a villain? Weren't they both trying to keep the Union together?
His first priority at the time, sure. That doesn't sum up the whole of what the war meant or what was at stake over the course of the war. What we Americans were fighting for in WWII, say, wasn't the totality of what the war meant for all the people involved.