The Union won the war with one hand tied behind its back.
The Confederacy never had a chance.
Present day estimates are that 300,000 Southern soldiers died.
All for "Southern rights."
In actual fact 300,000 died in a futile attempt to perpetuate slavery for the benefit of rich land owners, and owned no slaves at all, and had nothing whatsoever to gain or lose.
This is only true to a limited extent due to oversimplification.
It’s also true that many of those men with so much to lose and little to defend in the way of land fought for the self determination and local governance the FFs are celebrated for winning them less than a century previous.
Oversimplification is often appealing but life isn’t simple.
The north gladly enslaved those freedmen in a different form of plantation, and the powers of over reaching govt now have them trapped in yet another form of dependence so the moral high ground was not owned by either party as relates the African Americans.
