Dave at 126:

“Count our blessings” for the Union victory?

Let’s raise a monument to Abraham Lincoln!

Oh, we already did!

It was clearly Lincoln’s leadership and moral clarity that won the war. He was not fighting slavery; he fought to preserve the Union which benefited EVERYONE on both sides.

Booth’s murder hurt the South more than the North. The Radicals ran wild in corruption during Reconstruction and meant a 100 years of bitterness within the union.