With 400,000 brave young Americans dead to his credit.
Yeah, real statesman alright.
Varina, dear, let your husband rest in peace and may he spend the rest of Eternity shaking the hand of each man, woman and child who suffered and died in the bloodiest war America has ever fought.
FReegards!
It was a horrible bloody war, you are correct, and it did not need to be fought. As Davis said just before leaving the Union and joining the South, “We just want to be left alone.”
But unlike many of the following wars, it was a cause fought for freedom as prescribed by the founders of this nation. Not for nation building, not for oil, not for expediency of trade.