Abraham Lincoln And The Civil War - 1095 Words

In 1861 Abraham Lincoln became the sixteen president of the United States. He had the Proclamation of declaring forever to free slaves within the Confederacy in the year 1863. Lincoln directly told the South In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. Lincoln was thinking of using force to defend Federal law and the Union. He asked for states for 75,000 volunteers when Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender. Four slave states remained within the Union and four more slave†¦show more content†¦but that was all. He attain knowledge while working on a farm. On the farm he worked on he was splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He rode the circuit of court for a few years, was a captain in the Black Hawk War, and spent eight years in the Illinois legislature. His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest. said his law partner. Lincoln then started his own family, he married Mary Todd. They had four boys, only one of the boys lived to maturity. Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator in 1858. Debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation had won Abraham the Republican nomination for President in 1860. As President, Abraham built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Later on he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. Finally on January 1, 1863, he the Emancipation Proclamation had declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. The Civil War involved a huge issue and Lincoln made sure the world wouldn t ever for get that. He stated that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg. In 1864 as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war Lincoln won re-election. During