[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?"

[DoodleDawg]

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.

Millions? So there were slightly fewer than 4 million slaves in the Confederacy in 1861. Are you saying all the former slaves died of starvation and exposure? Half? Two thirds? What?