Lincoln's paramount object in his struggle was to preserve the Union. He didn't want the South breaking away and forming its own country. He said in one of his speeches that if he could restore the union by freeing all the slaves, he would do it. If he could restore the Union by only freeing some slaves and not others, he would do it, and if he could do it without freeing any slaves, he would do it.
to end the civil war.
Nobody really welcomed the civil war... There were things that led up to it like the slavery issue and Lincolns election. The main thing was Lincolns electoin because states in the south started to secced from the union.
to win the civil war
End of Civil War.
The Civil War.
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The American Civil War
Copperheads (Anti-war Democrats)
honest Abe is one of them
The Civil War.
To preserve the Union.
The Gettysburg Address