• NeilBrü@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      Tough call on the exile part, they would have likely fled west and created more of “the south” is in California