When Harriet Beecher Stowe was introduced to Abraham Lincoln he is purported to have said; "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." It is a legend which is not out of keeping with Lincoln's personality, but he probably never said it.
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He met her on December 2, 1862.
Abraham Lincoln knew about Harriet Beecher Stowe because of her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1862, the then US President Lincoln met her by inviting her to visit at the Executive Mansion. It was not called the White House until President Teddy Roosevelt changed the name to White House.
Abraham Lincoln to Stowe (Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin)
President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln passed the homestead act in 1862.
President Lincoln was frustrated with his military leaders from 1861 to 1862.
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The President of the United States, Abrahma Lincoln on the 22nd of September 1862.
President Lincoln was concerned about the battle successes of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. He feared for the safety of Washington DC. With that in mind, Lincoln sent General Fremont into the Valley to destroy Jackson's army.
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President Lincoln did begin to formulate a fair way to end slavery in the United States in 1862.