Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

52 e lusive v ictories embarked on his “Overland Campaign” in Virginia in May 1864, the Army of the Potomac would be in constant ...

l incoln’s s hadow 53 with the resources and geographic advantages of the Confederacy had he not prodded them. But the Union tri ...

54 e lusive v ictories and would force their leaders to return to the Union after the fi rst Con- federate setbacks.  Rebel re ...

l incoln’s s hadow 55 Union control over the Mississippi in summer 1863, Grant and other generals wanted to use the available fo ...

56 e lusive v ictories bodies of troops and their heavy equipment slow at best. In the latter instance, Lincoln and Stanton fell ...

l incoln’s s hadow 57 administration. Yet the very conventionality of his background proved his undoing, for in situations that ...

58 e lusive v ictories Swamp Fox). During the Civil War, Confederate irregular operations and cavalry raids behind Union lines g ...

l incoln’s s hadow 59 allowed themselves to be defeated in detail. Davis also refused to abandon any territory willingly—a refl ...

60 e lusive v ictories staggering casualty fi gures from Grant’s Overland campaign and Sher- man’s inability to take Atlanta dir ...

l incoln’s s hadow 61 that kept him in step with the public mood. He also had at his disposal an elaborate party organization an ...

62 e lusive v ictories He had wrested the presidential nomination in 1860 from more prominent party leaders, such as William Sew ...

l incoln’s s hadow 63 the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”  But he could also write ...

64 e lusive v ictories Republican leaders could gather information about the public mood. Long before public opinion polls off e ...

l incoln’s s hadow 65 won control, governing instead through their expanded executive authority.  Further, the Republican pre ...

66 e lusive v ictories In one other vital area, the Republican Party helped the president keep up popular support. Th e North wa ...

l incoln’s s hadow 67 Also, wartime presidents usually have had to deal with signifi cant partisan opposition in Congress, which ...

68 e lusive v ictories alters dramatically the institutional equation for a president and leaves him with reduced capacity to de ...

l incoln’s s hadow 69 observed in his fi rst debate with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, and policy had to take this sentiment into ...

70 e lusive v ictories win the war. As he saw it, the Union’s approach to Reconstruction ought to be designed to induce southern ...

l incoln’s s hadow 71 lay down their arms.  Accordingly, under his own authority as com- mander in chief, in 1862 he establis ...