No, Lincoln was the instigator of the “War of Northern Aggression”.
Alas, your typical Europhiles in those days weren't exactly like the Eurotrash ski lodge folks but they were Europhiles to the degree they'd rather hold people in slavery so they could keep the price of cotton they sold to Europeans low.
If they'd been pro-American there'd been much less of a problem. Too bad so many had to die.
How utterly foolish of Chris Matthews to add himself to the list of Confederates.