... Republican Party. He was elected on November 6, 1860. He promised to preserve the Union. On of his biggest problems was finding good generals. He experimented with many until he found Ulysses S. Grant and made him in charge of all Federal armies. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln made the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, which led to the 13th Amendment. He was ... ...

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... , and many bloody battles, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, where more than 3,000 Union soldiers and almost 4,000 Confederates died, Union General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Northern Confederate General Ulysses E. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The North had cut off their supplies, and they had lost too many soldiers to go on any longer. America was not ... ...

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