Abraham Lincoln's Role In The Civil War

Civil War has ended for a long time ago, but it still was a good history lesson for all students in America. There was a lot of people, who have contributed to the war. There were two people that everyone could not fail to mention about Abraham Lincoln, who was the sixteenth President of the United States. And Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the Lieutenant General of the Confederate. Abraham Lincoln was born on the twelfth of February 1809, in a low literate family with the tradition of farming and wood chopping. At a young age, Lincoln did not have much chance to pick up knowledge besides the books which he borrowed from his neighbors and friends. Lincoln’s father was unhappy with that and labeled Lincoln as “lazy” because Lincoln was

In the Confederate, their idea was opposite with Lincoln’s idea. From the beginning of the war, the Confederate did not want to free slavery because they thought that it would prevent the uniting of the country. The purpose of Emancipation Proclamation was to get more power for Lincoln to free slavery because he understands that at the moment, the Constitution limited the power of Federal government to free the slave. Lincoln stated that as the President of the United States of America, he has enough constitutional rights to create the law in the Civil War period. Lincoln wrote in the Emancipation Proclamation that the Union would use the army, and appropriate punishment to whom try to against the free slavery

In the speech at Peoria, Illinois on Oct 16, 1854, Lincoln said:” Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the vast mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We can not, then, make them equals.” From this speech, most people will change their mind about Lincoln, he wants to free slavery, but he does not want to give them all rights as white men. Comparing to this idea of Lincoln, Forrest got the same idea, but Forrest does not want to free