SOW chapter 5

by Debra
The United States wasn't even 100 years old and it was already in a civil war.
        Abraham L, Linclon had been president the year before 1860, and in in 1860 states were allowed to choose wheater they were a slave state or a free state.
         A year after the civil war began Linclon said that all slaves would be free on Janurary 1,1863. Now the war was being fought to end slavery.
         On On April 9,1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered.