Roger macbride allen biography of abraham
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Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War
How the North used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapns and More to Win the Civil War
Today, high-tech means instant Internet communication, electronic gadgets, and remote-control weapons. In 1861, there was a different list of wonders: printed telegraph messages, longhaul railroads, and rifles that could shoot three rounds a minute. Neither side understood how much these new inventions would change things, and both North and South marched off to the Civil War ready for the sort of fiighting Napoleon had done. Instead, they discovered themselve in the middle what has come to be known as the first modern war. How did the new overcome the old?
Much of the credit belongs to one man: Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln knew that winning the war would take more than the same old strategies and maneuvers. It would require using technology to create new ways of waging war. Lincoln worked to make sure his soldiers and
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American Civil War Biography
Civil Wars
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Monica Duffy Toft
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Understanding the origins of civil wars and their trajectories therefore demands some appreciation of the economic, political, social, cultural, and geographic beställning of societies. If there is one factor that best predicts why a civil war erupts, it is a prior civil war. That is why knowledge of a country's history of political violence, and associated narratives about who fryst vatten to blame and why, are critical to understanding where a civil war might next occur.
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For students of the Civil War, the lone figure of Abraham Lincoln fills the place occupied by the entire founding generation for historians of the early republic. There is simply no other person of comparable stature during the war years. This has certain drawbacks. One of them is a problem of oversupply. In living memory, readers have been treated to Lincoln the theologian (William J. Wolf, The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln), Lincoln the rhetor (Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg), Lincoln the master politician (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Lincoln the messianic figure (Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln: Redeemer President, winner of the Lincoln Prize), to name but a few of the available works. A look at my own bookshelf shows probably half a dozen Lincoln biographies of various sorts.
And, as we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth this coming February, o