Those that you are talking about are the 6% that owned slaves and controlled government. Then, as now, there were those who didn’t pay attention. It’s a shame there wasn’t a “Walk Away” movement in 1860.
This is the one line I do not agree with..
“Every man that starve union soldiers and refused them in the extremity of death a crust was Democrat”
although true to an extent, the POW camps, if that is what is being referred to here, were abhorrent on both sides. Lots of blame to go around on that point.
That there wasn’t a “walk away” movement should tell you something.