Revisionist History?? All I said was that the Union sacrificed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to destroy the CSA. Then you observed, correctly, that the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to loyalist Union slave states. What you are failing to comprehend is that this was not explicit Union condonement of slavery...it was the recognition that if the free states declared war on all slave states then the border slave states would be driven to the CSA camp, and thus tip the balance of power in the war.
You clearly are not a scholar of military strategy and theory, but at least try to understand this: Had the Union declared war on all slave states, then the CSA would have gained enough power to hold them off until the Union populace grew tired of fighting and sued for peace. Lincoln knew this, which was why he had to tread such a delicate road. While he loathed slavery, he could not abolish it immediately without condemning countless slaves in the south to permanent servitude. By keeping the Loyalist states in the Union fold he was able to leverage enough resources to utterly crush the South militarily. At that point he began, along with support from notable Abolitionist senators in Congress, to really push the 13th Amendment through the legal system. He also began the arduous process of Reconstruction, which was designed to help give the newly-freed blacks a start and then rebuild Southern society in a way that abandoned its horribly racist roots.
That was Lincoln's masterstroke: By leveraging border state loyalty to the Union during the war, they were forced to peacefully abandon slavery after the 13th Amendment went through or massively betray their wartime logic of 'Union>our values". Any other choice made by Lincoln would have meant the CSA could conceivably be a nation for decades afterwards, and I 100% guarantee you it would have been a worse fate for the blacks trapped there.
Now, obviously Lincoln's assassination threw a wrench in the works. We then got Andrew Johnson in office. He remains, in my opinion, the worst President in U.S history. He almost single-handedly destroyed the progress of the Reconstruction movement and seeded the beginnings of the Jim Crow-era 'underhanded racism' that pervaded the next century. U.S Grant, one of my favorite Presidents, fought mightily over two terms to undo Johnson's damage. Grant pushed the 14th and 15th amendments through Congress, virtually destroyed the KKK and other white groups, and [cont]
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