@Dale  
Lincoln wanted a pretty goddamn lenient and speedy Reconstruction. I always kind of thought that Radical Reconstruction wasn’t actually “radical” enough.

@Background Pony Number 17
 
The premature end of reconstruction is part of why the south is still fucked up. They didn’t get rebuilt worth a damn, and the region has carried the economic and cultural wounds of the conflict ever since.
 
It is a sad irony that the south would probably be in much better shape today if Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated.

@Background Pony Number 17  
The betrayal of Radical Republicans was indeed a dark spot.

@Itsthinking  
The South’s cause was indefensible, true. But remember that in 1876, the Union turned on its former Abolitionist supporters and betrayed the freed slaves by withdrawing its troops from the South and turning a blind eye to the systematic violation of the 14th and 15th Amendments there. All just so a Republican could win enough Southern support to take the White House. There were no angels in that conflict.

@That one guy….  
It’s more like if your roommate tried leaving before the lease was up, then threw a rock through your bedroom window.

Ahh yes. The American Civil War. About 600,000 young men died in those 5 years of fighting.  
The south wanted to Secede for a number of reasons, slavery being the icing on the Drama cake.  
But the Union had invested too much time and money in the south to let them walk away that easily, and the south fired the first shots, the shelling of Fort Sumter.  
Imagine if someone wanted to take 1/3 of your house because you wouldn’t let them shag bitches on your couch.

@Background Pony Number 17  
A tyrant for enforcing a legal contract against a group that had repeatedly shown discontent towards any sort of cooperation, and considered human beings property…okay, then.

@Itsthinking  
Or the Element of Honesty against a tyrant. Choose your villain here.

Will this be just like Over A Barrel?
 
With those two arguing their points of view while the rest of their respective armies are all “Uh… guys we are signing a peace treaty over here.”

Element of Loyalty facing off against a traitor. Nice.