[DoodleDawg]

The vast majority of "scholars" will seek to justify what the Union did, because this is where their inherent biases lie.

And you will condemn everything the Union did because that's where your inherent biases lie. Got it.

[DiogenesLamp]

I think if you condemn the first thing, which was to launch a war against people who just wanted to be left alone, all other wrongs follow from that.

Initiating a war in a bad cause taints all actions in support of that war.