And a war to protect slavery was conducted by slave-owning generals on the pro-slavery side. Again, what's your point? Other than to demonstrate that you still cling to the myth that the war was to end slavery. It wasn't. It was to preserve the Union. As Lincoln pointed out on many occasions.
We agree! It was a war about states rights! One side felt states have no rights to secede the other side does! A major breakthrough for you.
“It wasn’t. It was to preserve the Union. As Lincoln pointed out on many occasions.”
Your saint Abraham image is nothing more than a Hitler love fest & Lincolnite Hypocrisy
On page 566 of the 1999 Mariner/Houghton Mifflin edition of Mein Kampf Hitler clearly expresses the Lincoln/Your view.”[T]he individual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states.
Hitler (p. 567) mocked what he called “so-called sovereign states” in Germany because they stood in the way of a centralized Reich with their “impotence” and “fragmentation.” Such impotence and fragmentation of government was purposely designed by some of the American founders precisely because they wanted to limit the powers of the central government.