The Civil War was still raging when Lincoln was re-elected. The South had largely been defeated but all of the major armies continued to fight. Within five months after the election, the Confederate Armies began to surrender or simply disband.
Summer of 1864; that time Lincoln got reelected to be president again
there was renewed hope that he could end the war
The North was discouraged by bad war news
During the Civil War. It was created to help Lincoln be reelected which is how Lincoln county in Nevada was named.
Abraham Lincoln was reelected to a second term, which started the month before the end of the war.
Lincoln had nothing to do with the Revolutionary War. It was over before he was born in 1809. He was the President of the US at the time of the Civil War.
No. If he had lost the Election, there might have been a compromise peace, which could only have meant Southern independence. But by November 1864, the war was going better for the Union, with Grant keeping Lee on the defensive in Petersburg, Sherman capturing Atlanta, Sheridan dominating the Shenandoah, and the blockade-runners' port of Mobile being liberated.
No. President Lincoln was assassinated after the Civil War was over.
It was a tragic aftermath of the Civil War which was all but over at the time of his assassination.
Lincoln's first and ultimate goal was to preserve the Union. Other goals accrued over time as opportunities presented themselves.
He had already been reelected by that time, bu his campaign slogan was '' He kept us out of the war.''
He kept us out of war