yes
Becase he needed to show the other countries that we are not afriad to fight?
No. President Lincoln was assassinated after the Civil War was over.
Lincoln
in the 1800s
no
yes- the war began in 1861, the year that Lincoln took office.
How to keep the border states onside.
help the south out after an defeat in the civil war
At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln did not plan to allow the Southern states to break the Union apart. He wanted to keep the country whole and felt it was his duty as President.
Hannibal Hamlin
Robert E. Lee .
He didn't want the country to have disunity.