Thursday, December 8, 2011
Change
Throughout the semester, we have read about Lincoln and realized some very important things about him. First, he was extremely against fighting and war. As we saw, when he was confronted with duels and other things of that nature, he turned them down in most cases. What is extremely ironic is that he wound up conducting the American Civil War, the bloodiest battle ever to be fought on American soil. Does this mean that the issues over preserving the Union were much deeper issues for Lincoln and therefore justified going to war?
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I think Lincoln was extremely against fighting and war even while he was conducting the Civil War. Lincoln likely thought that war was the only way to make any sort of worthwhile change. I don't think he would have gone to war without serious and careful deliberation first.
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