Word: lincolnisms
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...Lincoln professed to Grant that he just wanted someone to "take the responsibility and act." But as Robert E. Lee's legend grew, so did the list of failed Union commanders...
PROMISE The fastidious Ohioan didn't drink or smoke. He wanted more time to train the Army, but Lincoln ordered him ahead, saying "They are green also...
PROMISE A courageous soldier and hard drinker, "Fighting Joe" once openly mused about becoming a dictator, drawing a sarcastic rebuke from Lincoln...
PROMISE An unmitigated failure as a civilian, he was nearly sacked after the carnage at Shiloh in 1862. Lincoln stood by him, saying simply "He fights...
Sources: National Park Service; Library of Congress; National Archives; Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, 1859-1865 (Library of America); The Civil War (trilogy), by Shelby Foote; Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson; Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald; Mr. Lincoln's Army, by Bruce Catton; Battlefields of the Civil War, by William C. Davis; Historical Atlas of the United States