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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address · 1863

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“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass-conflicts of which till then there was record.”

Winston Churchill · A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1956-1958 · Primary source

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President of the United States · 1809-1865
Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth US president who preserved the Union and advanced the abolition of slavery.

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Abraham Lincoln · 1863
The Gettysburg Address

Lincoln’s tribute to the dead at Gettysburg and his call to preserve democratic government through a renewed commitment to freedom.

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Abraham Lincoln · 1861
First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s argument that secession is unlawful, the Union must be preserved, and civil conflict should be avoided through restraint and reconciliation.

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Abraham Lincoln · 1863
Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln’s declaration that enslaved people in Confederate areas still in rebellion were free, justified as a wartime measure.

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Abraham Lincoln · 1865
Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s reflection on slavery as the war’s cause and his appeal for humility, reconciliation and a just peace.

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