What was the North fighting for?
“Of all the ongoing debates over the Civil War,” University of Virginia history professor Elizabeth Varon writes in her thought-provoking new book Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, “perhaps none has proven so difficult to resolve as the issue of Northern war aims. What was the North fighting for?”
Did Northern citizens and lawmakers primarily want to save the Union from being ripped in two? Were they
