Abraham Lincoln spent much of the summer of 1862 hiding out in the telegraph office of the war department. He said it kept him close to reports from the battlefront. But it also kept him out of public view at a time when he was wrestling with a central question of the war: what role did slavery play in the conflict? And what if anything should he do about it?
RE: "From the start of the war, Lincoln had said the fight wasn’t about slavery." Had there been CNN and MSNBC back then, I suspect Lincoln would have been excoriated the way Nikki Haley was when she fumbled her response about slavery and the Civil War.
RE: "From the start of the war, Lincoln had said the fight wasn’t about slavery." Had there been CNN and MSNBC back then, I suspect Lincoln would have been excoriated the way Nikki Haley was when she fumbled her response about slavery and the Civil War.
His fateful decision on the slavery issue became one of the defining moments of his Presidency.