Identifier: abrahamlincolnba03newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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islied MS. X Bates, diary. Unpublished MS. 432 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. four months to collect; and, besides, 5000regulars and 20,000 volunteers, which it wouldrequire new acts of Congress to authorize andfrom six to eight months to raise, organize, anddiscipline. •■ It is therefore mv opinion andadvice, writes Scott, • that Major Andersonbe instructed to evacuate the fort so longgallantly held by him and his companions,immediately on procuring suitable water trans-portation, and that he embark with his com-mand for Xew York.* In a purely military destruction consummated. This could not beallowed. t The dire alternative presented caused a thor-ough reexamination and discussion of the vari-ous plans of relief which had been suggested;and since the army and the navy showedsome considerable disagreement in opinions,these discussions were held in the presence ofPresident and Cabinet in the executive coun-cil chamber itself. General Scotts first im-pulse had been to revive and reorganize the
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BUST OF JAMES LOUIS PETIGRU, PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF CHARLESTON BY MAYOR WILLIAM A. COURTENAY. point of view, says Lincoln, this reducedthe duty of the Administration in the case tothe mere matter of getting the garrison safelyout of the fort. It was believed, however, thatso to abandon that position, under the circum-stances, would be utterly ruinous; that thenecessity under which it was to be done wouldnot be fully understood; that by many itwould be construed as a part of a voluntarypolicy; that at home it would discourage thefriends of the Union, emlxjlden its adversaries,and go far to insure to the latter a recognitionabroad; that in fact it would be our national • UnpublisherJ MS. Ward expedition, prepared about the middleof February, which was to have consisted ofseveral small Coast Survey steamers. To thisend he called Captain Ward to Washingtonand again discussed the plan. This, how-ever, considering the increase of batteries andchannel obstructions, was now by both ofthem

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