Reread my post #143 and tell me, in what way is it not clear?
That Confederates seceded & fought to protect slavery is indisputable as is: that Unionists fought to preserve the Union first and also to free slaves.
And you've known this since you were a child, so why pretend to make an issue of it here?
and you know that Lincoln was a tyrant, usurped the Constitution and Sherman was a war criminal. Buchanan stood by and did nothing when the first states seceded, because he knew the federal government had no legal right to retain them by force. If South Carolina’s secession meant anything, they could not allow the federal presence sitting in their harbor to remain. Maj. Anderson should have simply struck the colors and departed along with his men. Lincoln wanted war and he got it. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was nothing but a publicity stunt to provoke a slave rebellion in the South, thereby drawing resources away from the battlefield, where the Union had been getting it ass kicked for two years. To the victor, goes the history. Please continue to deify the man, who gave you what we have now, an overbearing and bloated federal government.