“The eventual solution - the total destruction of the Southern states, and the uneducated freed slaves left to live among their former owners - was incomprehensibly stupid.”
I sure wish there could have been a true compromise that would have avoided both the war and the aftermath. The reconstruction era hurt blacks in many ways people don’t think about. Most think only the slaveholders were punished. No, the South basically was treated like the Scots after Culloden and The Clearances.
To my great surprise, I immediately recalled the story, but still drew a complete blank on the names.
Believe it or not, they used to teach things like that to college freshmen in the 1960s.
Also interesting - the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published just 22 years after the Battle of Culloden.