Abraham Lincoln is the only US president to have had his entire term encapsulated by war. Through primary sources, images, and compelling narrative, students will learn how President Lincoln approached and executed the seemingly impossible job of chief commander of the Union army during the Civil War. They will discover Lincoln s hands-on management of battlefield strategy, his creative tactics for dealing with difficult generals and ruthless political...

Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.

The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world--and in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. Lincoln scholar Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office, analyzing the commander in chief who coped with the profound moral dilemmas of America's bloodiest war. In this sequel to Lincoln's Virtues Miller completes his "ethical biography, " showing the inexperienced backcountry...