Keeping the USA in one piece.
When he looked like losing, after Robert E. Lee's string of victories in Virginia, which nearly caused Britain to grant recognition to the Confederacy, he found it necessary to Issue the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for all Southern slaves.
For obvious reasons, this did not immediately make much difference to Southern slaves, but it did have the effect of keeping Britain out of the war, as they could not be seen to fight directly against the liberators of slaves.
This may have been the biggest factor in Northern victory.
Lincoln wanted to end the rebellion of the seceded states and preserve the federal union. Ending slavery was a secondary matter.
try free the slaves
to restore the union
Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the president when Abraham Lincoln was the president.
President Lincoln wanted to end slavery and wanted to stop the civil war
Abraham Lincoln was president during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was never a general during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the United States Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the USA during the Civil War.
I wouldn't know, I'm not Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during Abraham Lincoln's first term as president. He took over from James Buchanan, the 15th US President.
Lincoln. He was the 16th President and was elected in 1860.
It was the issue of slavery that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas disagreed about during their political debates. Stephen A Douglas supported slavery while Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
Abraham Lincoln then Andrew Johnson