Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln repudiated General John C. Fremont ... for similarly acting contrary to the Administration's policy...
...Lincoln's appointment of General Fremont to command the Department of the West was most popular ... On Aug. 30, 1861, Fremont, without consulting the President, issued an astonishing, unauthorized order. It declared martial law throughout Missouri, ordered the confiscation of the property of the rebels [and] freed all slaves...
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Then the President paused in thought for a moment and launched out on his own. He wished the reporters would read up on their history. A good many Presidents had been forced to discipline their generals. He directed the reporters to a book called Lincoln Fires a General (correct title: Lincoln Finds a General). President Folk's diary was interesting, too, and so was Washington's. Why, during the Civil War, said Student Truman, a Senate committee got hold of General Meade and used him like a pickpocket. The reporters leaped at the bait. Did that mean "General...