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Read a little of the thread. Same old song. The winners write history and the losers deal with it. Pizz on grant, sherman and lincoln. sherman in particular no more than a war criminal. lincoln never an abolitionist except for political expediency. Even his great emancipation applied only to "those states in rebellion" not border states, or western or northern. The War was not pursued by lincoln to free the oppressed slaves. It was to maintain the union and southern assets. The Confederate States had, and still have, the natural right to self determination never surrendered in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. It was as just and moral as was the first revolutionary war. The war they pursued was not truly a civil war. The Confederacy sought to separate itself from the north not dominate it. A quick look at New York vs Tennessee or Alabama or Georgia (Atlanta excepted) tells me where the pursuit of war by abe was wrong. Carry on.