[Modernman]

I hope you don't think Lincoln was a great man because he freed the slaves. He owned more slaves than any other American President before him.

Lincoln owned no slaves.

The move to free the slaves was a political move to get re-elected. Also, Lincoln only freed the slaves in the South. The slaves were still slaves in the North

Lincoln did not have the constitutional power to free the slaves in non-rebellious states. He did, however, have the power to ban slavery in rebellious areas in his role as commander-in-chief. Freeing the slaves was an attack on the economy supporting the rebels.

[waiyu]

OK, I'm about to do something that as far as I have seen has never happened on this site: I am going to apologize for my past two posts. Not because I believe I am wrong, but because the at the moment I do not have the material in my possession that backs up my previous statements. My information had come from several books that I had borrowed from one of my college history professors. At the time, I am unable to locate passages from these books to back myself up. I refuse to be a person who spouts off about any and every subject and not be able to produce proof. I still hold, in my personal opinion, that General Lee was both an honorable soldier and a great Patriot.