This thread is about Lincoln personally, not the civil war in its entirety. Of the three Civil War Amendments Lincoln was only involved with the 13th, which he guided through Congress. He was assassinated during the ratification process.
‘The United States Congress proposed the Fourteenth Amendment on June 13, 1866’-wiki, so Lincoln had nothing to do with it or the 15th Amendment. Criticism of the 14th and 15th Amendments would be off topic on a Lincoln thread.
Well, that’s a feeble retort, since the thread had morphed into much more than just a referendum on Lincoln long before I joined the fray. But nice try.
Others made reference to some of Mr. Lincoln’s more questionable attributes and motives elsewhere in the thread - you might want to go back and read those posts if Mr. Lincoln, isolated from the sweep of history all around him, is your interest.