AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
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He wanted to speed up the war and was eager to get revenge.
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He didn’t want to pay for it.
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He was told that the south was waiting.
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McDowell was not doing a good job training the army.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln’s decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the most important challenge Lincoln faced in the area of civil-military relations was that early in the war, his generals pursued the war they wanted to fight rather than the one their commander-in-chief wanted them to fight.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the war, Lincoln’s policy for the defeated South was not clear in all its details, though he continued to believe that the main object should be to restore the “seceded States, so-called, ” to their “proper practical relation” with the Union as soon as possible.