Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)
32 e lusive v ictories Lincoln struggled to master the multiple responsibilities of the political leader of a nation at war. As ...
l incoln’s s hadow 33 One other aspect of Lincoln’s wartime leadership rewards scrutiny. Faced with a truly existential threat t ...
34 e lusive v ictories Th e decision to embark on war—or pursue a path that will inevi- tably lead to armed confl ict—is one of ...
l incoln’s s hadow 35 senior offi cers with southern backgrounds had resigned or would follow their states out of the Union. Gen ...
36 e lusive v ictories disunion. (Delegates from the western part of the state never agreed, resulting in the breakaway of that ...
l incoln’s s hadow 37 against any move to use secession as an excuse to free the slaves. By late spring 1862, emancipation of sl ...
38 e lusive v ictories Th ese concerns soon found voice among northern politicians and the press. Th ird, the human cost of the ...
l incoln’s s hadow 39 Union war fortunes were at low ebb, following the defeat of General George B. McClellan on the Peninsula a ...
40 e lusive v ictories hoped to avoid, he could never turn back. Th e commitment to the total destruction of the centuries-ol ...
l incoln’s s hadow 41 blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ...
42 e lusive v ictories challenge for the Lincoln administration. Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln on his own ...
l incoln’s s hadow 43 known)—and the offi cers who would lead the Union Army now had been mere captains or lieutenants then. In ...
44 e lusive v ictories Washburne, the ranking Republican in the House of Representatives and an infl uential moderate, put forwa ...
l incoln’s s hadow 45 outspoken in favor of a limited war, he was, as we’ve seen, jettisoned shortly before the 1862 midterm ele ...
46 e lusive v ictories (At the start of the war, the Lincoln administration refused to enlist black soldiers; for the South, arm ...
l incoln’s s hadow 47 Framed to achieve the initial goal of restoring the Union, Anaconda did not envision a war that would seek ...
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l incoln’s s hadow 49 But politics imposed a second geographic logic on the war and on Lincoln’s strategy. With Washington and R ...
50 e lusive v ictories For more than two years Lincoln searched for a commander who could use this army eff ectively, discarding ...
l incoln’s s hadow 51 emancipation. Applied broadly by Sherman in his Atlanta campaign and the subsequent march across Georgia i ...
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