Abraham Lincoln and the Preservation of the Union
Abraham Lincoln and the Preservation of the Union
The Civil War began on April 12, 1861. Though Lincoln morally opposed slavery, he avoided any public comments connecting the war and the rights of slaves. He ...
Abraham Lincoln Elected President, Part III - National Portrait Gallery
For Lincoln, the task was always to preserve the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said, “Continue to execute all the express provisions of our ...
Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken”
With the Emancipation Proclamation as a new and pivotal development of the federal war effort, Lincoln sought to explain why the war to preserve the Union had ...
Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union - The Henry Ford
When the Civil War started, President Lincoln faced the ultimate test of America's founding principles. He felt that no state had the right to leave the ...
Abraham Lincoln: Life in Brief - Miller Center
Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union even if it meant war. He eventually raised an army and navy of nearly three million Northern men to face a Southern army ...
Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation | Articles and Essays
Whenever you shall have conquered all resistence to the Union, if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it will be an apt time then for you to declare you will ...
Lincoln's Reconstruction: An Unfulfilled Vision of the Union
By recalling the values of the Revolution, Lincoln intended to see through that they were preserved in postbellum America. ... Lincoln's address served to assure ...
Letter in Reply to Horace Greeley on Slavery and the Union—The ...
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by ...
Emancipation Proclamation (1863) - National Archives
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas " ...
To retain the loyalty of the remaining border states -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about ...
Abraham Lincoln | The White House
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced ...
President Abraham Lincoln > JAG Reporter > Article View Post
[1] Lincoln's deft leadership spanned the course of eight different lead generals and four years of conflict that ultimately led to the ...
Abraham Lincoln: Impact and Legacy - Miller Center
Because he was committed to preserving the Union and thus vindicating democracy no matter what the consequences to himself, the Union was indeed saved. Because ...
Abraham Lincoln the Man - National Park Service
But while he was compassionate and forgiving, Abraham Lincoln was also strong and resolute in his commitment to preserving the Union. The War ...
The Emancipation Proclamation - National Archives
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
Abraham Lincoln: Commander in Chief | American Battlefield Trust
While he was personally committed to the ultimate destruction of slavery, he felt that as president, his constitutional duty to preserve the Union was paramount ...
First Annual Message | The American Presidency Project
The Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed. We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which ...
Examining Lincoln's Views on African Americans and Slavery
As he described the work of 12,000 Louisianans loyal to the Union who had abolished slavery within the state, Lincoln, for the first time by any president, ...
Emancipation Proclamation ‑ Definition, Dates & Summary | HISTORY
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved ...
Abraham Lincoln: Biography, U.S. President, Abolitionist
President Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union during the American Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people.