What would the latest plausible POD be for the Civil War to remain a limited war of limited means and limited ends (along the lines of the Crittenden-Johnson, or "War Aims" Resolution of July 1861, which explicitly disavowed interference with "domestic institutions" of the states), or, as Lincoln termed it, "a war of elderstalk squirts, charged with rosewater?" IOTL, this Resolution was repealed in December 1861, and, throughout 1862, the war became more and more based around a full reconstruction of the south, culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation. What is the last moment where this shift could be forestalled, with the war still ongoing?
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