This is, so far, about as gentle a civil war thread as I have seen.
Why, no one has yet praised the skulking coward who came up behind Lincoln and shot him with a little girl’s gun, for example.
LOL...”little girl’s gun”
It would have been a lot better for the South if Lincoln had not been killed. More radical members of the Republican party did not like Lincolns amnesty for the South. As I’ve commented elsewhere, the radicals were in the pay of the oligarchs (swathed in puritan anti-slavery cleanliness) intent on seizure of Southern property and engineering of political control of Southern politics. There are several great works on the Lincoln conspiracy and Stanton’s hand in it. There was much money to be made by carpetbagging and Lincoln stood in the way. Dirty man that Stanton.