After McDowell's failure at the First Battle of Bull Run, George McClellan was ordered to lead he Union army in the east. This was order was given by Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln.
Sherman. It actually represented his failure to destroy the Army of Tennessee, as ordered. (That army escaped.) But the fall of Atlanta gave the North a big, dramatic signal that the war was going their way. Many claim that it saved Lincoln from losing the imminent General Election of November 1864.
lincoln ordered the union to attack the secessionist forces in maryland
Sherman's occupation of Atlanta. Ironically this represented the failure of his mission to destroy the Army of Tennessee, as ordered by Grant. But it sounded important and made big news when Northern civilian morale was suffering. Also at this time - the liberation of the port of Mobile, and the defeat of Jubal Early in the Shenandoah.
Sherman's failure to destroy the Army of Tennessee, as ordered by Grant. In the run-up to the General Election, Lincoln needed some dramatic Northern victories, and 'Atlanta Falls' at least made a heck of a headline. In strict battlefield terms, it did not change anything much. (The Army of Tennessee got out safely). But Sherman was already planning his punitive raids across Georgia, which would help to starve the Confederate armies, shatter Southern morale, and decisively shorten the war.
Abraham Lincoln ordered it.
Henry Wirz
Failure to Appear- Didn't appear for an ordered court date.
Lincoln ordered this general to replace McDowell
After the liberation of the Mississippi, Grant was ordered East, to rescue the Army of the Cumberland from starvation at Chattanooga.
Lincoln ordered the blockade of all Confederate seaports in April 1861.
Lincoln
April 19, 1861.
For those in power and who ordered it then it was a huge success. The church and ruling classes.
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.
lincoln
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