On THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES vs "The Civil War": NEVER Call it The Yankee-ized "Civil War" it Wasn't a "Civil War"; as a Civil War is Between Two Factions of The Same Nation; The Confederate States of America and The United States of America were Two Separate Nations; No Matter what Lincoln Thought; For Example: It was Just Yankee Propaganda and Yankee Symbolism To Leave The Stars for The CSA States on The USA Flag. IMO, Lincoln was Cowardly at Times, Displaying False Righteousness at Times Throughout the War, Starting with The Star-Lie. He Knew He was Going to Have to Invade The CSA, and The Moment His Troops Crossed The Border, The USA Would Be The Bad Guys and He Would Be Crowning The CSA The Good Guys, Fighting For Homeland, Which Was Their Perspective Already. IMO, To Cement That He Was Not a Coward, He Should Have Taken The Stars Off and Declared an Open War of Retrieval of Stolen Land, Won The War, Retrieved the Stolen States, and Deported Those Who, in The North's Opinion, were Traitors, Replaced The Stars, and Crowned Only Black Women or Men to U.S. Military Governorships of The Former CSA States, Pending Proper Elections. From that Border-Crossing Moment, His Contemporary World and World History would Believe for Fact that The USA were The Bad Guys and 1776/1861 Hypocrites. Key Example of Border-Crossing Equals The Bad Guys: Lee Crossing The Border to Gettysburg, Pivotal Mistake, Lost the Whole War for The CSA, Even if They Would have Won That Battle Desively, They Would Have Lost The War, just Later in Time, because They went From The Invaded Rigtheous Homeland Defenders to The Invading Evil Tyrant Aggressors, World Public Opinion is Crucial in War. The CSA was Fighting for Homeland the Whole Time, They Should NEVER have Crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, Up to The Line Yes, But That was a Literal and Figurative Line In The Sand which They Never Should have Crossed. Sadly, my Beloved Dixie did Cross That Border and Lost The Righteous Cause Mantle and The Freedom Fighter Title at That Very Moment (not Counting Morgan's Raids into my Home State, The Buckeye State, or any other Minor Raids which, by Definition, were Not Full-On Invasions).