Just saw the movie "Lincoln!" I enjoyed it, but fellow movie friends didn't. Too long, just like a "PBS mini-series" and I appreciate their perspective. I actually was dissapointed myself in the movie; I still do not understand why Lincoln would put the freeing of slaves, over reuniting the "union." Every recent thing I read states the Civil War was about 'preserving the Union, not slavery." If so, why was ending the war about "ending slavery and NOT perserving the Union?" Perhaps I haven't read the "accepted current perspective on the Civil War" but I would like to to!! I am open to the answers,