He's a god to the liberals. Remember he freed the slaves, although he didn't. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the Confederate States of America which was another country. That's like Biden giving a speech saying the slaves in Iran are freed. No slaves were freed in he north. Union General Ulysses Grant owned 129 slaves while he was fighting the war and even after the war ended. That said slavery was already dying before the War of Northern Aggression. General Lee had freed all his slaves long before the war started. Btw, there was no "civil war" in America. That's another straight up lie. A civil war is when one faction of a country tries to conquer another. The Confederacy never attempted to take over the Union government. They exercised their right to succeed from the "loose union" of States. And it had nothing to do with slavery. That issue was inserted later in the war when people in the north started rioting over the fact their men were dying for an unjust cause. The Union needed a humanitarian issue to fight for. In South Carolina, the first state to succeed, succession was already being argued for in the State Legislature as early as 1840 (I've read the transcripts). The issue at hand was the same issue that the War of Independence was about, taxation without representation. The south was an agrarian society, the north was an industrial society. An agrarian society has far less population than an industrial society because it's about land and farming. Not packing humanity into cities around factories. That meant the south had fewer representatives in Washington because of the smaller population. Which gave the northern politicians the power to overtax and even put tariffs on southern goods. One of the first things Lincoln did was to start corporate welfare, giving tax money to corporations.