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On April 12, 1861, America was split up into two parts. The north & the south. The North was the United States of America. The South was the Confederate States of America. The president of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis. The President of the United States of America was Abraham Lincoln. They were considered the Presidents of the Civil War.

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During the US Civil War, the President of the Union was Abraham Lincoln and the President of the Confederacy was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's main objective was to preserve the Union. The anti-slavery abolitionists did not understand Lincoln. For Lincoln, nothing could be worse than the dissolution of the Union. The slavery issue would be handled after the Union was secure.

For Jefferson Davis, the objective was to form a new nation, the Confederate States of America.

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Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Union or some could say the North. Jefferson Davis was the president of the South or better said the Confederacy.

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The President of the USA was Abraham Lincoln. The President of the CSA was Jefferson Davis. Both were born in Kentucky less than 150 miles from each other.

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In the US Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States and former US Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.

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Jefferson Davis was the President and Alexander Stephens was the Vice President.

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Abraham Lincoln - union

Jefferson Davis -confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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