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Spin it anyway you want. The South started the hostilities with it's attack on Ft. Sumter. And the war WAS about slavery and I'm bloody well fed-up with the revisionist nonsense saying it wasn't.Yes, it was not Lincolns original intention to end slavery. Among his reasons was that if he did the border states were it existed but where loyal to the North might go against the Union. And it certainly can't be said that the South was fighting to free them . Putting up a ;hell of a fight; was really the South running out the clock. When Lee was beaten at Gettysburg and Vicksburg fell , with the Confederacy split in two and the North in control of the Mississippi any general, any man possessed of the qualities you attribute to this man would have seen the strategic impact of this and realize the situation was hopeless and seek an end to the bloodshed. Instead Lee and Davis and his government dragged the slaughter on for two more bloody years.

"Among his reasons was that if he did the border states were it existed but where loyal to the North might go against the Union."

So do you agree with the occupation of states such as Maryland that appeared to be leaning towards secession?