[rockrr]

Then as now critics objected to Lincoln’s unnecessary war of coercion in which 650,000 soldiers and countless civilians died. In this time of preventable conflicts, Lincoln’s war against the CSA was the bloodiest and arguably most needless military adventure in American history, one fought — not to free slaves, but to crush an independence movement.

Baloney.

The confeds went to war against the north and Lincoln had the temerity to fight back. The focus of blame is misapplied here.

[theoldmarine]

When did the CSA declare war on the USA? Hostilities did not commence until Lincoln provoked them by attempting to reinforce and re-supply a fort in S. Carolina’s main harbor. This WAS a needless purposeful calculated provocation.

[Ditto]

The confeds went to war against the north and Lincoln had the temerity to fight back.

And they went to war for one and only one reason. For their "right" to expand their system of keeping other people in bondage, and to expand that "right" to the greatest territorial extent that they could.

In 1860, slavery was big money. Just like government is today. Cross slavery then, and you get slapped hard. Cross big government today, and watch out for the IRS.

[USS Johnston]

The confeds went to war against the north and Lincoln had the temerity to fight back. The focus of blame is misapplied here.

You mean Southern states had the temerity to defend their own turf, state sovereignty, and liberty against fedguv tyranny and overreach?

History repeats itself.