Provide an overview of President Lincoln’s extraordinary assumptions of power during wartime, in terms of their justified, legal and necessary to keep the United States intact. Include specific references to and analysis of his suspension of Habeas Corpus, the Dred Scott decision, forcibly ridding the nation of slavery, closures of dissenting Northern newspapers and arrests of their editors, implementation of Total Warfare, invading the South without a formal declaration of war and a naval blockade of southern ports. Why was Abraham Lincoln viewed in the American South as American tyrant and war criminal, and what where the Southern perspectives on the 10th amendment, the election of 1860, Generals Grant and Sherman, right of secession, Lincoln’s election, John Brown’s raid, national income tax and other relevant reasons.