Lincoln's Letter to the Confederates

"I love that when Lincoln was finally in a position to make a hard, fast decision," she says. "Don't even think about taking emancipation off the table because if you do, well, we're going to fight to the bitter end." 'If that is half slave, half free, you know what? That's fine with me,' he wrote of slaves being split between slavery and free. He knew how far he could push the voters before they would turn against him; his job was to unite the union.