[DoodleDawg]

President Abraham Lincoln proposed ending slavery by 1900:

And instead helped force through an amendment that ended slavery completely in December 1865.

[scpolitician]

So, on every battlefield of the Civil War, between 1861 and Lees Surrender in April 1865, which side was fighting to end slavery?

Answer: Neither side was fighting to end slavery...because slavery was present and legal in both the North and the South during the entire Civil War