Abraham Lincoln During The Civil War

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railroad official in private life” (Hargrove 73). But, not long after he fired him for being too cautious and always calling for reinforcements instead of fighting (Hargrove 74). As the war went on Lincoln asked for another forty-two thousand soldiers to enlist for another three year term (Hargrove 72). Lincoln said he felt almost ready to hang himself when the Union Army suffered thirteen thousand casualties during the battle of Shiloh (Hargrove 72). As the war with the South grew, Lincoln had to issue more and more emergency orders; he suspended habeas corpus and had navy blockade the southern ports (Hargrove 72). That was when he realized how long this war would really last. Lincoln did not agree with the war but he accepted it to save the Union (“Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President 1861-1865”).
Many presidents before Lincoln opposed slavery, but none before him had dared do anything about it (Hargrove 10). At first Abraham Lincoln was nervous about proposing his ...

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