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Now Abraham Lincoln was not the "wooden figure" many historians make him out to be. He was a real man, flesh and blood

Some people start thinking that if Lincoln wasn't a pure holy angel he has to be the devil, but he was just flesh and blood and trying to cope with impossible situations.

Any US president would have to put up a minimal effort to resist the secessionist wave. If he didn't, people would be cursing him for standing aside and just letting the country fall apart. That was something the Confederates should have anticipated.

I think part of the problem was that Jefferson Davis wasn't as smart or as flexible as he needed to be. He rushed to war when he should have been more cautious.

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Lincoln was definitely put in a tough spot.

As much as I admire Donald Trump, I think Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency under much worse conditions and had much more hate directed at him.

I sometimes wonder how differently things would have turned out if say William Seward won the presidency. Well Alaska might not be a state today, for one thing.