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Well I have read many of the authors posted and except for a few I can't say that many did a thing for me. Of course we have Sandburg, the part time poet when he was taking time from worshipping the 'benevolent dictator'. You know those volumes of drivel he wrote about lincoln. And we can't forget Upton 'Rats in the meat' Sinclair. While heinous, it probably wasn't the best time for him to start crying foul. The decades immediately following the War, every politician was wanting a hand in the pot and setting up just one more federal agency would sure be the answer.

Jack London? Eh, that's a pass. Hemingway? Another pass. Melville, Hawthorn, and Irving? Before the war really in another time.

Besides you're acting like there would be no interaction between the nations. Had the north fulfilled its Constitutional duties and allowed the South to leave instead of attacking them, and burning it to the ground in the process, I imagine both nations would have been as close as two nations could be, like Canada and these United States. Some minor issues but all in all not likely to start a war over anything. Of course the north WOULD probably have been the weaker party considering all their money came from the South. And as for this

I'm just pointing out how y'all tried to reward all those stalwart black men who you claim fought and died for the confederacy. You tried to return them to a state of semi-slavery and, when that was unsuccessful, you put Jim Crow laws into place as soon as reconstruction ended.

You need to get your story straight. Elsewhere you told me these laws were passed before Reconstruction in that short period of self governance. Now you're saying it was after Reconstruction. Well? Which was it? Fact is, that the laws were in place before Reconstruction finished and some were even passed by our yankee occupiers. I guess trying to recreate how it was 'back home', huh?