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Lincoln did not want Maryland to join the Confederacy because its secession would have severed crucial transportation and communication lines between the North and the capital, Washington, D.C. Maryland's geographic location made it strategically important, as its loss could have isolated the Union. Additionally, Lincoln aimed to preserve the Union and believed that maintaining control over Maryland was essential to preventing further Southern expansion and bolstering the Union's military position.
Lincoln declared war in order to preserve the Union, and the Northern armies were raised for this purpose. It was not for another eighteen months that he changed the war-aims into an official crusade against slavery.
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He went to war because he wanted to preserve the Union.
President Lincoln's main goal was to reunite the union.
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Abraham Lincoln did not want slavery to continue and he wanted to preserve the Union but unfortunately he was assassinated before he could do so, he also wrote the emancipation proclamation.
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Lincoln's major goal during the Civil War was to to preserve the union.preserve the union
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The initial war objective was to preserve the union.
Lincoln's first goal was to preserve the Union. However, he did want to free the slaves but did not want to upset the South more then they already were. The Union victory at Antietam gave Lincoln the confidence to pass the Emancipation Proclamation. It created great excitement, but its many loopholes failed to free any slaves.
It was to preserve the Union.
The initial war objective was to preserve the union.