Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.
General Sherman’s capture of Atlanta was just the change that Lincoln needed. It turned the tide of Northern public opinion.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Prognosis of his 1864 Reelection, Quoted in The History Channel, Sherman’s March, February 13, 2011
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
