[Dr. Sivana]

Can we honestly expect to get a true and unbiased picture of who Lincoln really was from such works?

I am a northerner who happens to be sympathetic to the idea of allowing secession, and that it would have been better in the long run had the Confederacy been left alone.

That said, just because a publisher or writer is from the north, it doesn't mean that he can't approach the topic honestly, especially as more time has passed.

I'm from Connecticut originally, but most of my ancestors came here well after the War of 1861 from places like Poland, Germany and Ireland. We didn't have a dog in that fight. Heck, some southern apologists live right here in the Prairie State where Lincoln resided, like Dr. Fleming of the Rockford Institute. Let anyone write, judge the works on their merits.

[Neoliberalnot]

I appreciate your comments sir.

I have two relatives listed on the monument at Vicksburg under the Union flag. Then again, reading outside the “history books” has provided a bit of a different view. The War of 1861 was not a civil war since the South had no interest in taking over the North—they just wanted to be left alone. Lincoln’s decision to force the South into submission killed many an innocent boy on both sides and for what?? So the DC Empire could rule all within reach. Why is the quest to satisfy government greed of more value than a single life?