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Said that, if government were run only by men who had led men into war, there would be far fewer wars. Just think how easy it was for Bush Sr and Jr to lead us into Mideast wars, and how easy it is for Trump to flirt with nuclear war.

These pictures give some idea of the horror of war before we sanitized it with long distance weapons like bombers, missles, drones, etc.
There was a fence angle at Antietam called the Bloody Corner. They said by the end of the battle men could run across the fence without stopping because of the bodies piled on the ground.

A fast boat hero ran against Bush. A PT boat hero ran against Nixon the first time.

Though by no means a decisive victory for the North (really, it was much more of a draw), the outcome of battle nevertheless gave Lincoln enough political capital that he could order the emancipation of all enslaved human beings in those states in open rebellion against the USA. He gave them until January 1.

Also, it has been said that soldiers on their way north again in the campaign that ended at Gettysburg came across the still-unburied corpses of their fallen brothers in arms -- some nine months later!

.... So the rich men would not have to give up their free labor and they could continue to exploit the cotton pickers with the use of slave labor these land owners could become filthy rich.

An equation of self enrichment that only worked if the uncompensated slave labor was allowed to continue and prevail.

The meat headed southern white lower classes fought the Civil War to protect slavery but stood to gain little because the rich plantation owners were the only ones to gain by retaining slavery. But the lower class and poor whites we're able to satiate their hatred of African/Americans and did not want Blacks to be treated as equals so the whites could continue to hate the Black skinned slaves and be allowed to continue to feed their vile racist whims without any limitations or constraints.

Willing to die for the right to hate - the personification of a true Southern Racist American Patriot who cherishes their proudly waving Confederate Flag.

The South Will Rise Again, so will slavery, and so will blatant in your face racism - if they get their way.