Agreed 99%, myself would say, absolutely not the real story.  There was a reason the tyrant Lincoln imprisoned thousands of journalists and editors and took iron fisted control of all media  and I mean all, there was no alternative source. The Northerners would sign up to make war on the South only if unrelentingly fed his propaganda: Rebels! Treason! Betrayer! Traitors! They attacked us first! Historical fact proven by his own words: Lincoln was agreeable to slavery being in place throughout America. He didn't wage war to free slaves. Nor were the Northerners gotten to fight by appeal to the needs of blacks. Lincoln's war was about power and control.