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minus-squareNeilBrü@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·3 days agoLincoln’s refusal to execute the principal Confederate traitors publicly and exile the rest was a mistake that has cost the world dearly. I say this as an admirer of Abraham Lincoln.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 days agoThe South never lost the civil war, they just kept waging it by other means.
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThe North won the war but lost the peace.
minus-squarebbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoTough call on the exile part, they would have likely fled west and created more of “the south” is in California
minus-squareMnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoUnlikely. California was admitted as a free state in 1850, and San Francisco is actually considered to be a part of the Underground Railroad by some.
Lincoln’s refusal to execute the principal Confederate traitors publicly and exile the rest was a mistake that has cost the world dearly.
I say this as an admirer of Abraham Lincoln.
Wasn’t that more on Johnson?
The South never lost the civil war, they just kept waging it by other means.
The North won the war but lost the peace.
Tough call on the exile part, they would have likely fled west and created more of “the south” is in California
Unlikely. California was admitted as a free state in 1850, and San Francisco is actually considered to be a part of the Underground Railroad by some.