The first person Lincoln arrested was not a prisoner of war, it was anyone who spoke out against what he was doing. People in the Union, not the Southern state who left the Union and became another country. It was people who were saying things he was doing that were really going against the constitution which he had already done during and before the South left the Union. He put those men in jail from the start of the war until almost the end of the war. I think people buy into the stories about Lincoln too much he was one of those pretty bad presidents even thou he had good points he caused some of the constitutional problems in the first place while he was not the president. Can you imagine what the people at that time though, don't speak or you will be arrested. They used to say he had a bad disease and was half insane at by the time of his second push in the civil war. I think that considering where he was from he had already been influenced by the progressive Republicans who had infiltrated the Republican party, those used to be called Illuminati which is communist. They came in claiming to abolitionist no, they got into the republican party that way, they did try to kick start the war with raid and murder in the south. This made the Southern states nervous thinking they were going to attack them, which was the plan.

Lincoln did not write to him on famous speech. Washington was pretty much as history paints him, this is going by him writing everything he thought as said while he was president and he sure had some people around him that sure could cause headaches Hamilton being one and the others that didn't trust Hamilton. I even understand some of his stance about the Native Native in the south, I also understand why they didn't do as George Washington wanted them to do. They intermarried with the Spaniards, some of the leaders of those nations, one was a Spanish Baron, not just a native Chief. They had dealing with Spain and so they didn't see any difference they were not of the USA had little understanding of the New Government in Washington, the same problem Washington had, he didn't understand they just didn't see the US as he did. Big tangled history from our being and I understand Washington trying to keep the Union the New Republic from being destroy almost from the inception. Washington did the best job of any president in History, he keeps the country from falling apart at the time everyone was not agreeing with anyone else. He manages to keep it together. He was calmer than you would have thought.
He had a very stable personality and you could tell it in his writing he didn't leave things out.

Lincoln was a poor president next to Washington actually most were. When you find what was really going on during Lincoln's day and what he did before he was president and after is not what history teaches. Propaganda was going on then as well as now, he did want the old southern states back in, he was the reason they left, he pushed the tariffs on the southern states and would not try to remove them. The constitution said you could not charge tariffs between states that should be enough for people to understand Lincoln went against the constitution, his action with the other powers he gave himself, it was not by what he declared because nothing warrants it, there was no sedition the Southern state flat out left the Union and later set up another Union, not all joined them as in they vote for it, that is why they left Alabama. You had people wanting more than just getting a country made in the south, some wanted the western state for themselves. We have always had black-hearted people some not so wonderful as written about yet they were fooled about others too. The only thing I can say Lincoln was not in it alone, he was not so nice of a guy either, he had his good points, that is about all there is for Lincoln. I found this history in archives from the time so, surprise lies are always been told seems.

Go do some digging on this, and don't start during his presidential years.