President Abraham Lincoln's Success In The Civil War
Lincoln’s success in the election was due to his moderate views on slavery, his protective tariff and his support for improving national infrastructure. In the final election, Lincoln found himself in a four-way race that included Stephan Douglas, his friend and now rival, John C. Breckinridge of the Northern Democrats and John Bell of the Constitution Party. Lincoln won the election with not quite forty percent of the popular vote, but received 180 of 303 electoral votes. Lincoln’s cabinet became his strongest asset during his first presidential term. Days before Lincoln’s inauguration in March of 1861, seven southern states had already seceded from the union, but by April the United States military forces installation Fort Sumter was under
…show more content…
He was often at odds with his generals, his Cabinet, his party and a majority of the American people (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). January 1863, Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation, reshaping the Civil War from saving the Union to abolishing slavery. The Union military force's half battlefield defeats made it difficult to keep up morale and support strong for reuniting the nation. When the Union claimed the victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, it gave Lincoln just enough confidence to officially change the goals of the war. Lincoln stated in the Emancipation Proclamation that all individuals who were being held as slaves “shall be free." The action was more symbolic than effective because the North had no control over any states in rebellion and the proclamation did not relate to Border States, Tennessee or some Louisiana parishes. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg’s Address on November 19, 1863; Lincoln did not realized that it would become his most famous speech and one of the most significant speeches in American history. Addressing a crowd of around fifteen thousand people, Lincoln delivered his two-hundred and seventy-two-word speech at one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Civil War, the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, in
He was often at odds with his generals, his Cabinet, his party and a majority of the American people (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). January 1863, Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation, reshaping the Civil War from saving the Union to abolishing slavery. The Union military force's half battlefield defeats made it difficult to keep up morale and support strong for reuniting the nation. When the Union claimed the victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, it gave Lincoln just enough confidence to officially change the goals of the war. Lincoln stated in the Emancipation Proclamation that all individuals who were being held as slaves “shall be free." The action was more symbolic than effective because the North had no control over any states in rebellion and the proclamation did not relate to Border States, Tennessee or some Louisiana parishes. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg’s Address on November 19, 1863; Lincoln did not realized that it would become his most famous speech and one of the most significant speeches in American history. Addressing a crowd of around fifteen thousand people, Lincoln delivered his two-hundred and seventy-two-word speech at one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Civil War, the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, in