[Nifster]

Without the amendments (13,14, and 15) to the constitution there would NOT have been a grant of citizenship.

Your analysis lacks in oh soon many ways.....but I won’t bother.

You are confused

[Vigilanteman]

You are speaking about results which came out of the Civil War. I am speaking about the event which made these results inevitable.

It is like arguing about when ObaMao's affordable care act was imposed upon us were I to say the American electorate made it inevitable in November 2008 and you arguing that it actually took more than a year after that.