I’m not a Lincoln worshiper but I sure don’t think he was ugly inside
It was a simmering regional conflict with roots preceding our founding which continues today with many causes and players and consequences
Lincoln was just one of many players on the stage in which the cream of our nation died so we could end up where we are now
Pretty sad really.....all that for the sorry excuse our cultural panorama is today
We are poised for far worse than 1861-77
and we let it happen
Just like last go around
But anyhow....great pics....these are the best colorized I’ve seen
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Lincoln at times, there are times I think he was too much of a dictator. Heck, I think the Confederates were right on many issues, but ti play Devil’s Advocate, he did what he had to do to win the war which was his objective. If I had to play the role of Lincoln in a computer simulation, I’d do the same things he did. Combine that with the industrial might of the North and lackluster international support of the South, well this is a case where force “solved” the problem. The quotes are there where it really did not but I have to say the North got it’s way for better or worse. Like you, I think there are division now that originate from that time along with the current politics we have now. Glenn Beck, no matter if you like or hate him, he is right on one thing here, we are at a point where there are Americans so far apart in ideology where we cannot sit at the same table anymore, families split up and so on. That sounds familiar.