Your comment is incredibly hyperbolic. The Union won the civil war. Slavery in its most overwhelmingly common form was ended. Millions of black Americans were

Your comment is incredibly hyperbolic. The Union won the civil war. Slavery in its most overwhelmingly common form was ended. Millions of black Americans were freed. Whatever his other faults and shortcomings, Lincoln presided over the sacrifice of many men’s lives to bring about that momentous change.