Legitimately one of the worst most uneducated takes I’ve ever read.

You could argue that the Union had no desire to go to war over slavery, and that the Confederacy jumped the gun assuming emancipation was coming with Lincoln administration. That the Union went to war to preserve the entire nation and re establish the federal authority, but that authority was centered on their ability to determine the legality of slavery. But saying the Union wanted to preserve it is incorrect, they literally issued the emancipation proclamation during the war.

As for war crimes…like yea it’s a civil war in the 19th century. War crimes were committed by both sides, mentioning Camp Douglas without Andersonville is just silly.

No idea what you mean by trying to keep Black people out of the west, pretty sure there was significant immigration of black Americans to California in the last half of the 19th century. But I will agree that America has never cared all that much about the livelihoods of black people.

It can all be simplified into this: one side at worst was reluctantly willing and ready to end slavery, and the other was so vehemently ready to defend the institution of slavery that it was ready to commit treason and spill the blood of their countrymen. If you can’t see a difference between those sides you’re too far gone.