Lincoln was president and had blood on his hands. He waged war on other Americans as a sitting President. It’s hard to imagine today how deadly the War of Northern Aggression really was. The numbers are staggering—approximately 620,000 dead soldiers, at least 50,000 dead civilians, an estimated 6 million pounds of human and animal carcasses at Gettysburg, can’t convey the concrete horror of a nation living day after day with the shock, disorientation, and despair caused by the bloodiest war in the country’s history. The war years surely did transform the nation into a republic of suffering. The number of Civil War soldiers who died is about equal to the number of American dead from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and Korea combined. Carnage caused by an American President. Stunning. I hope Sherman and Lincoln are deservedly rotting in hell.
Yawn.
Of course, the Confederacy had not one thing to do with any carnage. No, none whatsoever. No Confederate ever harmed the hair on the head of anyone. The South populated with Godfearing, Bible-loving, peaceful, generous, pure of heart and body, golden souls without an impure intention ever contemplated.
The South was simply the sad and unwitting victim of all the destruction and death dealt in the entire affair.
Had Lincoln never been born, no evil would have been visited upon the lands.
Is that about right? Isn’t that the lost cause Confederate mantra? It was the other guy’s fault...we wuz innocent!
With that mindset, it’s no wander you guys sport wood when you reminisce about the murder of President Lincoln.