America at war...Still LINCOLN

I guess by far the biggest mess the US ever got itself into was the civil war. No true purpose really. Pointless. Forget the slave thing, it had nothing to do with the beginning of that idiotic war. Civil war. Bruderkrieg as the Germans call it; (war among brothers)
The underground railway for escaping slaves existed long before the war. The two capital cities, north and south were no more than 100 miles apart from one another.
A superb orator and speech writer. Without that senseless war he could have been a great president.