Lincoln could not have gotten anything like the kind of Reconstruction he had claimed he wanted, given the US system at that time, even had he lived.
Even more to the point, had he wanted helpful political and economic Reconstruction conditions, why then Sherman and Sheridan's later campaigns on his watch?
Finally, had he wanted helpful political and economic Reconstruction conditions, why free only southern slaves, as a terrorist strategy, during the conflict, rather than making emancipation a condition of surrender, or of a treaty, or settlement, of some kind afterwards?
Call it Lincoln Lala Land.
Cf recent post re Bobbitt, Moyar.
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