For a truly eye-opening account of just how monstrous Lincoln and his generals were, read *War Crimes Against Southern Civilians* by Walter Brian Cisco.

The Northern legions raped, pillaged, looted and burned their way through the South. They shelled Atlanta when it was defenseless and full of women and children, and then burned nearly all of it to the ground.

That was how they cut their teeth for the later task of largely eradicating American Indians and incarcerating the survivors in "reservations".

Thus was the Federal domestic empire forged, which was a prelude to the world empire that followed after WWII that is bankrupting our nation in every way: financially, socially, morally.