re: #146 MandyManners

Death in a war is not MURDER.

What would rather have had happen? Slavery to continue?

Slavery? Sorry, but that was a side issue. Lincoln said that he basically would have done anything to end the war and reunite the states. Emancipating the slaves was done to upset the South’s use of slavery for manual labor. Sherman’s march to the sea did much much more to end the war than did Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. It did bring about the end to slavery here in the US though and in doing so was a good thing, but slavery wasn’t the driving motive to the Civil War.