american_civil_war | commander | abraham_lincoln <tsp> alfred_moore_scales | battles | battle_of_fredericksburg <tsp> battle_of_fredericksburg | ispartofmilitaryconflict | american_civil_war <sep> the american civil war (april 12, 1861 – may 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the united states it was fought between the union ('the north') and the confederacy ('the south'), the latter formed by states that had seceded the central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 us presidential election of abraham lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the western territories 
abraham lincoln was a commander in the american civil war. alfred moore scales fought in the battle of fredericksburg during the american civil war.abraham lincoln of american civil war opposed expansion of slavery into western territories