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President Lincoln.
Lincoln greatest victory was his election as President followed by his re-election.
He was winning the war. With victory in Atlanta, and the siege of Petersberg, Virginia (near Richmond), the Union was going to win the war, and President Abraham Lincoln was getting rid of slavery. General George McClellan, the Democratic nominee for President was a terrible, wimpy general, and he looked like the sort of leader who would give everything away in order to end the war, and might even support slavery. Almost nobody voted for McClellan, instead of President Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln.
William T. Sherman
The Union Army's victory at the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) gave Lincoln the confidence.
President Lincoln waited for this victory to release the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the Northern states).
While it wasn't immediately following, the Battle of Antietam and the Union victory there gave President Lincoln the push to issue the proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.
William Seward recommended that President Lincoln wait until a major Union victory occurred before issuing the proclamation.
William Seward recommended that President Lincoln wait until a major Union victory occurred before issuing the proclamation.
President Lincoln successfully led the Union to victory over the Confederacy, which resulted in the continuation of the United States as a single, unified country, and this also resulted in the end of slavery in the US.
The defeat of Atlanta convinced the war weary North that end of the war was in sight and also led to the reelection of Abraham Lincoln