The Absurd GOP

[Rev. Rye]

Notice how I "treated".

Except they were not and that just "lost cause" revisionist nonsense.

Of course, even most Lost Causers acknowledge that the war wasn't over by the time Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Admittedly, Antietam, the turning point of the war, was fought a few days before it was issued, but the Confederacy was by no means, treated as a conquered nation by this point. There'd still be over two and a half years left, with six battles even bloodier than Antietam left to come at that point.