President Lincoln visited Richmond on April fourth. He visited the Confederate state house where the rebel Congress had met.

林肯总统4月4日访问里士满。他参观了同盟国议会大楼，叛军的国会在大楼中召开会议。

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the enslaved people in the Confederate states.

1863 年， 亚伯拉罕·林肯总统发布了《解放奴隶宣言》，解放了南部邦联的奴隶。

The confederate states had to be reunited with the union and the rights of the newly free blacks had to be established, unfortunately reconstruction was easier said than done.

联盟国不得不与合众国再次团结起来，要为刚刚得到解放的黑奴规定权利，不幸的是，这些重建工作说来容易做起来难。

Men of more conservative views held that, as the war had been waged by the North on the theory that no state could secede from the union, the Confederate states had merely attempted to withdraw and had failed.

持更保守观点的人认为，由于北方是根据任何州都不能脱离联邦的理论发动战争的， 所以同盟国只是试图退出， 但失败了。