The invasdion of the Southern states by the national government, the Constitutional liberties taken by Lincoln, the bad precedent set for the expansion of federal power, and all the carnage would have been worth it, in my opinion, if they’d have said from the outset “We’re invading to set the negro free.” That’s not what it was about.
If it was about slavery, why didn’t the infamous emancipation proclamation, free the slaves in the US, instead of reintroducing slavery in conquered territory.
barbra ann