What Was Lincoln's Role In The Civil War

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He was raised in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, but later he moved to southern Indiana in 1816. Lincoln didn’t go to school often because he had to support his family. He moved to Southern Illinois in 1830 with his family, and Lincoln worked on a river flatboat hauling freight sown the Mississippi to New Orleans when living in Southern Illinois. After moving to Salem, Illinois he got jobs as a shopkeeper and a postmaster. Later, he became interested in politics and supported the Whig Party. He did not support slavery to territories, and had a big dream of abolishing slavery. He did not go to law school so he taught himself law then passed the bar examination in 1836. The next year he moved to a new capital called Springfield. He met his wife Mary Todd who had lots of suitors and they married in 1842. He had 4 kids only 1 made

General George Mc Clellan, constantly annoyed Lincoln but then Mc Clellan failed to find the retreating Confederate Army after the Union victory at Antietam , so Lincoln fired him.Though Lincoln once said that his paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, he never said it was to keep or end slavery nothing came to think of emancipation as one of his greatest achievements, and would he argue for the constitution outlawing slavery. In January 1, 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln freed all slaves from Confederate states. Two important Union victories in July 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania finally changed the outcome of the war. In November 1863, Lincoln gave a short speech at the dedication ceremony for the new national cemetery at Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865 and the Union won the