[arrogantsob]

Obviously not. No one felt the deaths more than Lincoln.

He announced the Emancipation Proclamation as a MILITARY aid and the coalition he led might not have held together had it been announced sooner. It only freed slaves in the states in rebellion not in Maryland, Missouri or Kentucky. He was a brilliant politician.

[DiogenesLamp]

He announced the Emancipation Proclamation as a MILITARY aid and the coalition he led might not have held together had it been announced sooner.

You mean they would have been a little upset at a "bait and switch"?

He was a brilliant politician.

Too clever by half. Had he not stolen the nomination from Seward, we likely never would have had a civil war, or such an overbearing Federal government.

[jeffersondem]

“No one felt the deaths more than Lincoln.”

I would have thought the wives, mothers, fathers, children and other family members might have taken it even harder.