I agree with the idea that the North had won the Civil War before it began to the extent of Lincoln's conservative political stands. Trying to receive the favor of the South while winning in the North would require Lincoln to take neutral stands in heated political issues like slavery. It wasn't really wan by the North until he broke away from these stands to enact the Emancipation Proclamation and turn the tides of war in favor of the North. "This Lincoln always publicly condemned the abolitionists who fought slavery by extra constitutional means and condemned also the mobs who deprived them of their right of free speech and free press." (Holfstadter, Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth) Other than that, the North had the upper hand in nearly all aspects that really mattered in times of war. With this information it is clear that without Lincoln's conservative political stands a "Quick War" would have been much more realistic. Either way, the North had won the Civil War before it......
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