((You are the only Daughter of Abraham and Mary Lincoln's out of their 5 children, including you. You are the 3rd oldest out of their children.))

It is January 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln expects the American Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war and that the proposed Thirteenth Amendment will be defeated by the returning slave states. He feels it imperative to pass the amendment beforehand, to foreclose any possibility that freed slaves might be re-enslaved.