[T-Bone Texan]

My main beef is his acceptance/support of massive noncombatant causalties, mostly Southern, which in retrospect was a dishonorable war crime.

[DiogenesLamp]

My main beef is his acceptance/support of massive noncombatant causalties, mostly Southern, which in retrospect was a dishonorable war crime.

I read something last week to the effect that perhaps millions of former slaves died of starvation and exposure as a consequence of the war.

It begs for the question that "if the war was for their behalf, then why did no one care about them dying as a consequence of it?"

[BroJoeK]

T-Bone Texan: "My main beef is his acceptance/support of massive noncombatant causalties, mostly Southern, which in retrospect was a dishonorable war crime."

Total nonsense.
You were lied to as a child and now nothing can bring you to truth.
In fact there is no confirmed data supporting any such allegations.
Property destruction? Sure, plenty.
Mass murders or starvation of civilians? No, no real evidence.

DiogenseLamp: "I read something last week to the effect that perhaps millions of former slaves died of starvation and exposure as a consequence of the war."

Sure, and "somewhere" I read that every single person alive during the Civil War, without exception, is now dead and it's all Lincoln's fault!!

Pure nonsense, no serious evidence for any of it.