And it didn’t work out too well.
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
~ Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Union dead after the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Photo by Alexander Gardner. Library of Congress
Military Casualties in American Wars per The American Battlefield Trust:
More American soldiers became casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg than in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 combined as per The American Battlefield Trust:
