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Category Archives: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln’s Masterclass in Leadership: Letters to Civil War Generals
Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States in 1861, he took the helm of a nation in crisis. Seven slave-holding Southern states had already proclaimed their independence and formed a new … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Civil War Leadership, Union Army Command
Tagged Civil War generals, David Hunter, George McClellan, Joseph Hooker, Leadership lessons from Lincoln, Lincoln letters to generals, Lincoln mentorship, Lincoln military strategy, Ulysses S. Grant, Union Army leadership
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Why Abraham Lincoln Refused to Respect Jefferson Davis
Was the Confederacy a New Nation? History records that Jefferson Davis was the first president of the Confederate States of America. But there was one man who never conceded to Davis the dignity of that title. That man was Abraham … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Civil War Politics
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Stephens, Confederate government, Confederate insurgents, Confederate States of America, Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Jefferson Davis, Lincoln and secession, Lincoln political strategy, Secession and the Constitution, Union preservation, Was the Confederacy a nation
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Why Abraham Lincoln Sent the Union Army to Defeat at Bull Run
Abraham Lincoln insisted on fighting a battle the army’s own commander said it was not ready to fight. As I began studying the Civil War, I often wondered why President Abraham Lincoln ordered Union troops to fight the disastrous first … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Civil War Battles
Tagged Bull Run, Civil War newspapers, Harper's Weekly
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Lincoln in 1855: Slavery will never end peacefully
Abraham Lincoln was a realist. At a time when many in the country, including most politicians, were desperately seeking a way to keep the slavery issue under wraps, Lincoln had already recognized that the South’s “peculiar institution” wasn’t going to … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Slavery
Tagged abolition, fugitive slaves, half slave and half free, RonElFran, secession
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