Edward Bonekemper is a General Grant apoologist. He probably is the second dumbest most dishonest history/influencer thete is, topped only by Ty Seidule who will mostly likely remain the all time champion of historical bullshit. Those guys are a cunt hair away from ancient aliens. The North itself owned slaves. At no point when they started the war did they say it was to end slavery. It was to preserve the union. Aka to secure the revenue from southern states which was being use to subsidizes northern cities, banks and industries. Nobody gave a damn about the fate of blacks in the 1860s. The few and very radical abolishionists there were, saw it as a tactic to stifle regional labor between competing railroads.