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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln as a Strategist
Washington to Manassas, and an open line from Harper's Ferry to Strasburg - the military men to find the way of doing these things.
If Lincoln had never written another sentence, these lines would evince his possession of an accurate mental coup d'wil, and an instinctive discernment of strategic points of profound im portance at once in a military and a political sense. What was the obvious military policy of the North Of. Course its dominant purpose was to put down the rebellion. But as regarded the line of the Potomac there were peculiar conditions, some natural, some artificial, indeed, but none the less stringent, which inter posed themselves to the complication of the main problem.
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