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What might have happened if Lincoln had replaced McClellan with Grant earlier in the war?
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How did Lincoln react to the attack on Fort Sumter?
Lincoln, by openly deciding to resupply the fort, provoked the South into a rash attack. After the fort fell to Southern attack, public opinion widely favored war with the Confederacy. On April 15, three days after the surrender of the fort, Lincoln called on Northern states to provide troops to "protect the Union." While many felt that Lincoln had made a miscalculation, others saw his actions as deliberately designed to cause the eruption of hostilities, with a Northern takeover of the South being the only solution to his earlier analogy of the US as "a house divided" by the institution of slavery.
Lincoln made direct threats of military force against the South concerning secession?
True; President Abraham Lincoln told the Southern states that the sanctity of the United States was of paramount importance and he would use military force to keep them from succession. This was nothing new however; some 25 years earlier, President Andrew Jackson told the same southern states the same thing.
Who Fought in the Seven Days Battle?
George B. McClellan was the commander of the Union Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee was commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had just taken command three weeks earlier.
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Why did the first Emancipation Proclamation disturb Union General George B McClellan?
It was in late September that Union General George B. McClellan received the news of Lincoln's first Emancipation Proclamation along with the president's suspension of habea corpus. This was Lincoln's complete repudiation of McClellan's views of the war. McClellan had demanded earlier from Lincoln that slavery would be left alone. Lincoln wanted emancipation. McClellan also had demanded that there be strict limits on military actions against the rights and property of Confederate civilians. Lincoln disagreed.
Why didn't Lincoln fire McClellan sooner?
US President Lincoln had to relieve General George B. McClellan after the Battle of Antietam because he failed to pursue the retreating enemy and McClellan could not be trusted based on his overall battle actions since 1861 and his political differences with Lincoln. Lincoln was as fair to McClellan as possible. He did not even wait until the midterm elections to let the general understand he would be replaced.
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What caused US President Lincoln to be disappointed with General George B McClellan?
General McClellan was an excellent military strategist, but not a very aggressive commander of troops in the field(in battle). Early in the war, after McClellan had been endlessly drilling the Army but not deploying it for battle, Lincoln sarcastically commented "If General McClellan is not going to use the Army, I'd like to borrow it for a while." McClellan was too much of the siege mentality. During the 1862 Peninsular Campaign parts of the Union Army got within about 7 miles of Richmond(their objective)and basically stopped their advance. Lincoln needed a General who was aggressive in battle and that is why he respected Gen. Grant. NO, Lincoln's problem with McClellan was not military but political. Like most people, McClellan objected to the Radical Republicans' use of the war to push their political agenda and to rape the South. The Radical Republicans in Congress, few of whom had ever done military service, were suspicious of professional military men, particularly those of the upper classes such as McClellan and Fitzhugh Porter. They held hearings on the conduct of the war, and sought to harass and imprison any officer they suspected of "disloyalty" (i.e., not following the radical Abolitionist party line). The radicals in Congress wanted to fire McClellan long before Lincoln actually did. And Lincoln did not replace McClellan with Grant. He replaced McClellan with Pope and Burnside, who were disasters (but "politically correct"), then Hooker (ditto), and finally Meade, who was a conservative Democrat...but by now Lincoln was running out of Generals. Then Grant came in as Meade's boss. Grant was safe politically because his friend and sponsor was the powerful Illinois Congressman Elihu Washburne, whom Lincoln listened to and obeyed.
Describe what General George McCellan's Role in the Civil War?
George McClellan was a major Union general during the American Civil War. He organized the Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general in chief of the Union Army. Earlier in the war, he played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. Although his plans were meticulous, McClellan often overestimated the strength of enemy units and was reluctant to apply principles of mass, which meant that he often left parts of his army unengaged at decisive points. McClellan's leadership skills during battle were questioned by President Lincoln. This led to Lincoln removing McClellan from his command, first as general in chief and then from the Army of the Potomac.
Who was the political opponent of Abraham Lincoln?
In the 1860 presidential election, which occurred before the Civil War began, Lincoln was the nominee of the Republicans. Stephan A. Douglas was nominated by the Democrats, but a pro-slavery faction walked out of the convention and nominated John C. Breckinridge. There was also fourth party made up of old-line Whigs and hold-overs from the American (Know-Nothing) party, and they nominated John Bell. All four candidates received electoral votes. In 1864, while the Civil War was still going on, Lincoln ran for a second term for President, and General George B. McClellan, who Lincoln had fired a few years earlier, ran against him. In the Senate elections of 1858, Abraham Lincoln lost to Stephan Douglas, the Northern Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1860.
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