Jeet Heer, the Naomi Wolf of history. Ignore @HeerJeet's trollish, dishonest, & inane declamations, read instead James M. McPherson, "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era", "For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War", "Drawn with the Sword" etc.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1399131367917694978 …
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Jeet has his moments! (I quite liked his review of "Joker.") But this is not one of them. Not one of the good ones, at least.
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Weird, I've read McPherson and I don't remember him saying the war aims of the union army at the start of the war was abolition. Rather, like all historians, he documents how and why the war aims changed from start of war to end.
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But that has nothing to do with why the Union Army was called that! (I'm surprised McPherson says the South brushed the defense of slavery under the rug -- really? the Cornerstone speech? the declarations of secession?)
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McPherson does not, nor do I, minimize the centrality of slavery to the civil war! The question is war aims, which changed over time. My "(see the name)" was, I thought pretty obviously, a catty joke.
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