So there's one thing that continuously bothers me.
Lincoln flat out said himself "without the South, who would pay for the government?"
But then he proceeded to destroy infrastructure and encourage it via shit like Sherman's March, not to mention the half-assed attempt to "reconstruct" the South after the war.
What the fuck was going through his head? Destroying the South's infrastructure to the extent he did makes absolutely no sense when compared to the revenue losses that it caused.