Why Union leaders like General Grant and President lincoln did not want to punish the south.

He wanted both parties to be on his side.

Explanation: Lincoln's reconstructive policy toward the South was lenient because he wanted to popularize his Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln feared that compelling enforcement of the proclamation could lead to the defeat of the Republican Party in the election of 1864, and that popular Democrats could overturn his proclamation.

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