Lincoln’s obstinacy and wrongheadedness cost the nation 640,000 lives.
We are still feeling the effects financially of Emancipation.
It was a grand mess all around.
Let the descendants of the valiant on both sides keep their monuments!
War was going to happen regardless. If the Civil War had occurred decades earlier, say the early 1830s, President Jackson would have been no less obstinate in keeping the union together (and as said, he would’ve hanged the leaders, including his own 1st term Vice-President Calhoun).
No, the South;s decision to go to war to preserve an economic system based on slavery cost the nation 650,000 lives.