JakeStarkey
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If Lincoln had lived, they would have been readmitted just in that way. That they weren't was the result of the ignorant Black Codes, former rebels trying to sit in Congress, Andrew Johnson's waffling, and the Radical Reconstructionists' hatred of the Old South.
My opinion only: the North won the war, the South won the peace.
My opinion only: the North won the war, the South won the peace.