(07-26-2015 07:18 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  

(07-26-2015 05:55 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-22-2015 10:15 AM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  Lincoln

I'm not Lincoln's (or Wilson's) biggest fan, but they don't deserve to be mentioned alongside the cosmically evil people listed on this thread.

Well he needlessly had 800,000 men killed. Countless murders, rapes and looted and stolen property all over a landmass as large as Europe.

Lincoln made the best of a bad situation, which anyone else would have made far worse. But he killed nobody. He merely tried to hold a country together, when it was bound and determined to tear itself apart.

But the north didn't declare war on the south. The south fired the first shots, starting the conflict. Lincoln simply had the resolve to see it through to the end.

The SOUTH started the war - the killing - and everything else associated with the Civil War. And they did it to keep people in slavery. Lincoln killed nobody - and started nothing. It was all on the southerners.

So if you blame Lincoln for the Civil War deaths, you did not pay attention in history class. Your assumption is so far off base as to be in another universe.