Correct, and don't discount the generations of men and women born into bondage because of the inability of northern leaders to step up sooner. It's a little ins

Correct, and don't discount the generations of men and women born into bondage because of the inability of northern leaders to step up sooner. It's a little insulting to suggest the half million soldiers dead are the cost of the Civil War, when it's also the millions who suffered from the existence of the institution of slavery.