You thought wrong, Ache, about that screed by Joe Ryan- whoever the hell he's supposed to be. Having been fool enough actually to read it, I can tell you that I've seldom - and possibly ever- seen such a pile of absolute horseshit pretending to be history in a single place.

If you really want to know about Lincoln, may I suggest the excellent works by Ronald White and Doris Kearns Goodwin. There are also some excellent factual biographies of Lee out there written by actual scholars and historians instead of by some ignorant idiot Confederate apologist.