Okay-—back up as I’m trying to understand. I have a few questions if you don’t mind and thanks for your patience in advance:
-—What invaders?
-—You’re stating 750,000 people died to stop corruption or over reach of government and states rights?
-—You’re stating it had nothing to do with freeing slaves/imprisoned patriots?
People from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, etc. invading Virginia to force them to obey Washington DC. Those invaders.
-—You’re stating 750,000 people died to stop corruption or over reach of government and states rights?
I'm stating that the last most accurate total of all casualties from the Civil War is 750,000, and that these men did not die to free the slaves, they died to make the Southern states into slaves. Well, approximately half of them did. The other half died trying to prevent them from enslaving everyone in their home states.
-—You’re stating it had nothing to do with freeing slaves/imprisoned patriots?
I am stating that the Civil War did not start as any effort to free any slaves. It started as an effort to force the Southern states to continue paying the taxes (72% of the total) to the Federal government.
It began as a war over tax money and authoritarian supremacy. The Southern states believed they had the right to leave, (supported by quite a lot of evidence) and the Northern states regarded them as too monetarily valuable to allow them to leave.
At first the Northern states were okay with letting them go, but as the cost of letting them go began to materialize, they suddenly turned against the idea of allowing them to leave.
Lincoln absolutely did not want them to leave. They were paying 72% of all the Federal government's bills, and without them, he would have to raise taxes massively in the North just to meet the budget.
So invasion it was.