Why was Lincoln disappointed after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 1

President Lincoln was upset at General Meade because of how he had let confederate leader Robert E. Lee escape. on the night of July 3rd, Lee and his men retreated into the fog. the next morning they had escaped over the river. When Lincoln had found out he said to Meade in a letter regarding Lee - "He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, have ended the war. As it is, the war will be prolonged indefinitely."

Answer 2

President Lincoln, a man of singular temperment, was rarely furious. He was however frustrated and dissapointed that the Army of the Potomac was not able to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia during that force's retreat after the Battle of Gettysburg when it lay cornered by the flooding Potomac in the town of Williamsport Maryland. Many in Lincoln's cabinent and in the Department of War sought to relieve General George Meade for his failure to vanquish Lee's Army while it lay trapped for over a week. Lincoln recognised that Meade's Army was exhausted and depleted after the contest in Gettysburg and while Robert Lee had been bested he was the most effective general in the New World when fighting a defensive battle behind prepared works, as he had in Williamsport Maryland. As a result Meade remained in Command and indeed was still in command of the Army of the Potomac until the Confederate surrender.

Answer 3

Because Meade failed to follow quickly and exploit his advantage.