In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.