The war wasn’t to end discrimination. It was to end the insurrection.
As a wartime measure, slavery in areas in insurrection was ended by Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery was ended in most of the south by the end of the war. Only about 60,000 slaves remained to be freed by the 13th Amendment.
People of discriminating tastes still discriminate today.
Once again, my recollection of history must be Amiss. I was certain that Secretary of State William Seward said something like this:
"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."
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Slavery was ended in most of the south by the end of the war. Only about 60,000 slaves remained to be freed by the 13th Amendment.
Probably those in the North whom Lincoln didn't see fit to set free with his Proclamation. So what was the reason the North Kept slaves throughout the War again?
Seriously, do you not notice a cognitive disconnect here? If the war was over slavery, why didn't they unilaterally end it when and where they could?
Would you have kept Maryland slaves in bondage?