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Head Quarters Armies of the United States
City-Point,
April 3. 5 P.M. 1865
Hon. Sec. of War
Washington, D.C.

Yours received. Thanks for your caution; but I have already
been to Petersburg, stayed with Gen. Grant an hour &  a half
and returned here. It is certain now that Richmond is in our
hands, and I think I will go there to-morrow. I will take care
of myself.
A. Lincoln

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Lincoln stated in a Message to his secretary of war concerning his safety that he would not be leaving until the Union won the war

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"He haunted the army telegraph office for news of the battles
raging in Virginia. He knew that soon Robert E. Lee must
make a major decision: Would he sacrifice his army in a final,
hopeless battle to defend Richmond, or would he abandon the
Confederate capital and save his men to fight another day?"

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Lincoln kept bothering Telegraphers until he found out that Lee would surrender Richmond or continue to fight, he was desperate to know and was dedicated to take Richmond regardless

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"The Union president
did not want to go home until he had won the war. And he
dreamed of seeing Richmond."

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Lincoln put his family on hold because he wanted to see the capital of Richmond and the success of the war he fought so hard for to win

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"By the time Abe Lincoln grew up, he’d had less than a year
of school. But he’d managed to learn to read and write, and
he wanted a better life for himself than that of a poor farmer.
He tried many different kinds of jobs: piloting a riverboat,
surveying (taking careful measurement of land to set up
boundaries), keeping a store, and working as a postmaster.
He read books to teach himselflaw so that he could
practice as an attorney. Finally in 1846 he was elected to
the U.S. Congress"

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Lincoln, despite being born to a poor family in a log cabin, became a lawyer and a senator and then president on his own right

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Character trait: Dedicated