In the second paragraph Abraham Lincoln said that the north and the south never expected the war to be huge or last as long as it had lasted.
He did not believe that the South were responsible for the war due to the fact that he knew that both the North and the South were at fault and each played their own role in the war.
The civil war in the US was fought between the North and the South of the US. The way was due to the fact that the North had abolished the use of slaves.
Slavery was the major source of labor on the farms of the white plantation owners in the south.
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