Lincoln, Abraham

POTUS during the American Civil War.

Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on 19 November 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Some folks consider Abraham Lincoln to have the been the best American President ever while others consider him as one of the worst.

Lincoln seems to get the credit for freeing the slaves, even though at the time he so did he was not the leader of the slave states since they had already left the Union.

In my opinion Thomas Jefferson was, without question, the best POTUS we have ever had. I would not consider Lincoln the worst POTUS we ever had but would not rate him as being very far from the bottom of the list, even though he was the first Republican POTUS.  He may rank a bit higher in my book than FDR, Carter or Obama.