Hey Lampster! How you been? Taking your meds like a good boy?
750,000 dead because Jeff Davis and that other treasonous Confederate son of a bitch Robert E. Lee took it on themselves to secede from the Union and start a war to preserve slavery.
Lincoln started the war because the South was going to economically rape his big business buddies in the Northeast. (same human garbage still controlling Washington DC today)
Without the government being able to force the money to flow through their pockets, they were going to go bust.