Killed about 800,000 (8,000,000 in ratio to toady’s pop.) maimed many more all for some abstraction called “the Union”, in other words, big government. He slaughtered for big government. Obama not quite that bad yet.
To create that thing you dismiss as an 'abstraction' cost over 50,000 American casualties out of a total population of less than 3 million.
So in your twisted neo-confederate hatred of this nation, I suppose you consider Washington to be a butcher as well.