CIVIL+WAR

Comprimise fails- Although Lincon was elected president in November 1860, He was not inaugurated until the sollowing march. The unions initail response to secession was the resposibility. of the President Buchanan. Declaring that the government had no authority to forcibly preserve the union, Buchanan urged Congress to be conciliatory.

The result of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg proved to be the turning of the war in the east and it also strenghtened the Republicans. Lee's forces reamained on the defensive