At the Beginning of the Civil War,President Abraham Lincoln and Northern

At the beginning of the Civil War,President Abraham Lincoln and northern newspapers expected that

A) the South would avoid the battlefield at all costs.
B) the conflict would incite a slave rebellion.
C) the war would be long and drawn out.
D) a quick Union military victory would show the folly of secession.
E) the Union would need to simply control the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.