inquiry question: Lincoln

[cwydro]

3. Lincoln was presented as a great president who freed the slaves.

We got all the background about studying by candlelight, etc. too.

We were also taught that slavery was a horrible wrong. We also learned about other leaders of that era. We learned about the Underground Railroad. I remember being fascinated by slaves who escaped, and by those who aided them (in the north and the south.)

I learned this in elementary school in North Carolina.

Oh, and NO ONE EVER referred to it as the "War of Northern Aggression" as I have seen certain posters assert here. NEVER have I heard that in the south.

It was called the Civil War. It was a great tragedy for our nation that killed more than in other, much larger, conflicts.