U.S. Grant

WBTH = War between the States... had to look it up

Here we call it the Civil war.
To this day in the South, it's often called "The War of Northern Aggression".

Rob

 

I'd say don't conflate "a civil war" with "The Civil War."

 

Grant's memoirs (a better source than some snippet from Wikipedia!) makes it clear that after expressing some harsh rhetoric especially after the assassination, Johnson quickly shifted, taking a different tack towards the South:

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

"I knew also the feeling that Mr. Johnson had expressed in speeches and conversation against the Southern people, and I feared that his course towards them would be such as to repel, and make them unwilling citizens; and if they became such they would remain so for a long while."

"I believe the South would have been saved from very much of the hardness of feeling that was engendered by Mr. Johnson's course towards them during the first few months of his administration. Be this as it may, Mr. Lincoln's assassination was particularly unfortunate for the entire nation. Mr. Johnson's course towards the South did engender bitterness of feeling. His denunciations of treason and his ever-ready remark, "'Treason is a crime and must be made odious,' was repeated to all those men of the South who came to him to get some assurances of safety so that they might go to work at something with the feeling that what they obtained would be secure to them. He uttered his denunciations with great vehemence."

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

"Mr. Johnson, after a complete revolution of sentiment, seemed to regard the South not only as an oppressed people, but as the people best entitled to consideration of any of our citizens. This was more than the people who had secured to us the perpetuation of the Union were prepared for, and they became more radical in their views. The Southerners had the most power in the executive branch. Mr. Johnson having gone to their side."

 

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QUOTE="Salty, post: 2417155, member: 5656"]From Wiki (article is about U.S. Grant)
. Attending Lincoln's funeral on April 19, Grant stood alone and wept openly; he later said Lincoln was "the greatest man I have ever known."[242] Upon Johnson's assuming the presidency, Grant told Julia that he dreaded the change in administrations; he judged Johnson's attitude toward white southerners as one that would "make them unwilling citizens", and feared that the Civil War would be revived.[243]

Do yo think that there was a good chance for the WBTS to be revived.

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To what end? To reinstate slavery? Give me a break!

 

What the South wanted was spelled out sufficiently in the individual state's articles of cessation.

 

Not at that time. The will of the South to fight had been broken.

 

The armies were no longer being supplied.