My dad has been a Civil War buff for many years and has attended round table events with other enthusiasts as well as number of re-inactments at various battle field sites. He opened my eyes to Lincoln years ago.
It is NOT as we were taught in school. There was a whole lot more going on than just the growing hatred toward slavery. I see Lincoln as more of an imperialist who conquered, ravaged and occupied a newly self proclaimed nation for the sake of the “union”. He laid waste to the South and Texas for instance suffered the punishment of military occupation for something like a decade after the end of the war. They didn’t call it the war of northern aggression for nothing. Lincoln is not my hero.
My dad, incidentally, is not a southerner, but a Missourian. Missouri had a lot of people on both sides.
How did your Dad deal with Article Three ?
That’s pretty close to what my family said about the war and they were very involved and from Va.
“sake of the “union”.”
Sake of the railroads. Lincoln, himself, said the States have the right to leave. It wasn’t until his railroad buddies, for whom he was their lawyer, demanded the union stay together did he even run for office.
His inaugural address was all about not stopping slavery.