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"Lincoln crossed his legs
and “looked far off with a serious, dreamy expression.” "Sitting in the quiet study of the Confederate president, perhaps Lincoln weighed the cost—more than 620,000 American lives[5]—paid to get there. He did not speak. Then he requested a glass of water."

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He knew his relentlessness was paying off.

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"There was a man, Lincoln said, who had sworn never to touch alcohol. He visited a friend who offered him a drink
of lemonade. Then the friend suggested that the lemonade would taste better with a little brandy in it. The man replied
that if some of the brandy were to get into the lemonade “unbeknown to him,” that would be fine.
Sherman believed that Lincoln meant it would be the best thing for the country if Jefferson Davis were simply to leave and never return."

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Abraham was so focused on ending the war that he didn't mind letting Davis go

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"Abraham Lincoln had left his own White House several days ago and was now traveling in Virginia. Lincoln was visiting the Union Army.[3] 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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He was determined to see the war to its end.

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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."

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Despite being highly uneducated Abraham set out to start a career for himself