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" Lincoln
answered Sherman by saying that all he wanted was for the Southern armies to be defeated. He wanted the Confederate soldiers sent back to their homes, their farms, and their shops

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" Lincoln
answered Sherman by saying that all he wanted was for the
Southern armies to be defeated. He wanted the Confederate
soldiers sent back to their homes, their farms, and their shops

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Lincoln throughout the war wanted everyone to be equal and wanted to restore the states back together as they were before.

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"Lincoln explained his views in several famous debates during his campaign for Senate in 1858. The campaign
debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas brought Lincoln to national attention for the first time" (181).

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Lincoln gave many ideas and thoughts about the war and what should be right between the United States.

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" Lincoln was still a young man when he met and fell in love with Ann Rutledge. Everyone expected them to get married, but before that could happen, Ann became ill and died.
Lincoln himself never talked or wrote about Ann after her death" (179-180).

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He did have children and one of them died when they were young but also his wife died of an illness later in his life.

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He started at a young age with no money and not anyone supporting him throughout him trying to be someone important someday.

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"But he’d managed to learn to read and write, and
he wanted a better life for himself than that of a poor farmer" (178-179).