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652K died because secessionists tried to rip this country in half.
625k people died because America refused to deal with (read: END) slavery for 70 or so years.
it was worth too much to the south, and it was worth to much to the textile industry in the north...
secessionists certainly were evil men who sought to extend an evil practice and they were certainly part and parcel to the distruction visited upon the nation.
There were 5 slave holding states that did no join the Confederacy. As a philosophical point, you don't think a state or group of states has a right to seek a different government? If no, then you disagree with the concept of the United States.
Battlefield deaths were 140,000 Union soldiers and 75,000 Confederate soldiers.
Whatever the number of dead Confederates, clearly not nearly enough were killed. I wish that whole army had been wiped out.
Lincoln's aggressive war against the Confederates caused 625,000 deaths. After 2 years of battle, he issued the Emancipatin Proclamation correcting the terrible wrong of slavery.
You can't prove that.
Name one slave freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. If you can name one, let me know...I'm well-connected. I'll get us on the talk radio and TV circuit plus the university lecture circuit.
We will be rich beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.
If the entire army was wiped out maybe organizations like the KKK might have never existed and reconstruction would have worked...
had reconstruction not taken the form of visiting additional punishment on the south, and had the south not been invaded by yankee carpetbaggers, there would have been far fewer organizations like the KKK.
recontruction didnt fail because of the KKK it failed because it was a terrible policy.
In truth, it was the confederate states that was violently aggressive, not only towards the Rest of the US, but also towards Cuba (via Narciso Lopez) and Nicaragua and Mexico (William Walker). The slab owning class that ran the states truly wanted to expand their sick institution throughout the Americas, and they openly called for wars in order to make it so.
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