[WhiskeyPapa]

Yeah, President Lincoln was -so- desperate at the end of the war that he proposed in February 1865 (that's late in the war, right?) that $400,000,000 in bonds be made available to the rebel states if they would agree to reassume their rightful place in the Union.

Walt

[ought-six]

By February 1865, just months before the end of the War, Lincoln could afford to be magnanimous. But where was his charity two years earlier, in February, 1863? Ooops, he was of a different mindset then, because his precious Army of the Potomac was on the ropes.