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what did Abraham Lincoln do wrong during the civil war?
what were the negatives opposed to the positive views on Lincoln.

Answer by Kekionga
The one main thing that I can think of, from my limited perspective, is that in early 1862 when it was apparent that he lacked leadership Lincoln went back to McClellan. Lincoln had already relieved “Little Mac” once before, but when General Pope was defeated, he gave command of the army to McClellan. His statement at the time was that he had to “use the tools we have.”

McClellan’s failure to pursue the Confederates after the Battle of Antietam possibly prolonged the war by almost three years.

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Why the Civil War Came (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)

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In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all?
Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture the feel of a very different time and place, helping the reader to grasp more fully the commencement of our bloodiest war. From William W. Freehling’s discussion of the peculiarities of North American slavery to Charles Royster’s disturbing piece on the combatants’ savage readiness to fight, the contributors bring to life the climate of a country on the brink of disaster. Mark Summers, for instance, depicts the tragically jubilant first weeks of Northern recruitment, when Americans on both sides were as yet unaware of the hellish slaughter that awaited them. Glenna Matthews underscores the important war-catalyzing role played by extraordinary public women, who proved that neither side of the Mason-Dixon line was as patriarchal as is thought. David Blight reveals an African-American world that “knew what time it was,” and welcomed war. And Gabor Boritt examines the struggle’s central figure, Lincoln himself, illuminating in the years leading up to the war a blindness on the future president’s part, an unwillingness to confront the looming calamity that was about to smash the nation asunder.
William E. Gienapp notes perhaps the most unsettling fact about the Civil War, that democratic institutions could not resolve the slavery issue without resorting to violence on an epic scale. With gripping detail, Why the Civil War Came takes readers back to a country fraught with bitterness, confusion, and hatred–a country ripe for a war of unprecedented bloodshed–to show why democracy failed, and violence reigned.

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Did Abraham Lincoln disband congress during the civil war?
Well Did He?

Answer by Captain Bathrobe
No.

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in certain areas (notably Maryland), as is permitted by the Constitution in times of insurrection. Congress, as far as I know, remained in session, though somewhat reduced in numbers.

Answer by Sound_of_the_silenced
Yes. He also imprisoned journalists and suspended the Constitution.

Answer by Lizella J
Yes, they were sent home because of the Civil War. There were much more important things going on.

Answer by perflexed
they pretty much disbanded themself when half of them decided to form the confederate states of america

Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray

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A journalistic history of America’s Civil War, it records the war largely in terms of human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and ordinary people are featured. Illustrated.

Best Little Stories from the Blue and the Gray is a journalistic history of America’s Civil War and the people who fought it. Drawn from the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and ordinary citizens as much as from the accomplishments of military leaders, it records the war largely in terms of its human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, it gives voice to the common people – soldiers and civilians alike – not just military and political leaders, featuring stories about:

  • The Confederacy’s Patton brothers, whose heroics inspired their descendant, George S. Patton Jr., of World War II fame.
  • A general who served faithfully and honorably under Stonewall Jackson even though as a cadet he had been expelled from VMI for talking back to Professor Jackson.
  • The true story behind the song, “Dixie,” which was written in the North and was one of Abraham Lincoln’s favorite songs.
  • The Confederate veteran who erected a monument in New England to his former enemy, the soldiers of the Union army.
  • The onetime Union drummer who apparently was the only Civil War veteran lost when the Titanic sank nearly five decades later.
  • The Confederate veteran who wrote nearly 1,000 novels and novelettes after the Civil War and was buried at Jefferson Davis’s postwar home in Mississippi.
  • The Southern cemetery in which forty generals – all Union – are buried.
  • An obscure Confederate general who is honored by a statue in Washington, D.C.
  • How California won the Civil War for the Union…sort of…and how Texas gave the Confederacy a boost, even though Gov. Sam Houston did not intend to do so.
  • The Union submarine that sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras while under tow to Charleston, South Caroline, not in battle.
  • The final – but unsought – sentimental journey for Varina Howell Davis and her husband, Jefferson Davis, aboard a Mississippi River steamboat just days before his death.

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    why did abraham lincoln suspend habeas corpus during the civil war?
    Was he provoked to do so to force the south back into union, to proibit cogress from withdrawing war funds, to keep abolitionists from petitioning cogress to outlaw slavery in the south, or to silence critics in the south who opposed the war?

    did he possibly do it to force generals to fighter more boldly?

    Answer by Monty
    Lincoln suspended habeas corpus twice.

    On April 27, 1861, the writ of habeas corpus was suspended by President Abraham Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana during the American Civil War. Lincoln did so in response to riots, local militia actions, and the threat that the border slave state of Maryland would secede from the Union, leaving the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., surrounded by hostile territory. Lincoln was also motivated by requests by generals to set up military courts to rein in “Copperheads” or Peace Democrats, and those in the Union who supported the Confederate cause.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States

    on Sept. 24, 1862, after fresh military disasters, with a gloomy prospect for the administration in the upcoming elections, with an unpopular conscription looming and doubt about the public’s reception of the Emancipation Proclamation (preliminary issue Sept. 22), the President suspended habeas corpus again, this time over the entire North.

    http://www.etymonline.com/cw/habeas.htm

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