To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union Army.

Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.

( Note: President Lincoln was popular, and many cities named streets after him, so not every " Lincoln Way " is in fact the Lincoln Highway.

However, the Lincoln Tunnel approach was included in the Interstate Highway System and in 1958, it was renumbered from Route 3 to Interstate 495 despite the fact it does not meet Interstate Highway standards.

Though in point of fact, Lincoln declined this request, his decision did little to prevent a number of Southern states from seceding, and America was soon embroiled in the Civil War.

Whittlesey was educated at Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments ; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch, Croydon and Cliffe.

Rhodes disliked the fact that Hanna had supported the successful Republican candidate, former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln.

In fact, this look was imported from the 1958 Lincoln Continental, where it had been the accidental result of a design specification for an electrically opening ( breezeway ) rear window.

Curiously, CP / CMS was contributed to the Type-III Library by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and not by IBM, despite the fact that the system was built by IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center.

Despite the fact that Smith is a practicing Catholic, as Kevin Smith confirmed in an interview on the film's DVD, several religious groups, especially the Catholic League, said the film was anti-Catholic and blasphemous, and organized protests, including one that took place at the November 12 premiere of the film at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In fact, according to one historian, Truman had “ done more than any President since Lincoln to awaken American conscience to the issues of civil rights ".

Having formed officially as an amateur association in 1884 after the disbanding of Lincoln Rovers ( formerly Lincoln Recreation ), football in the city of Lincoln had in fact been prominent since the 1860s ( although not strictly connected to the modern day club ).

It also notes how news of the regiment's courage spurred the recruitment of numerous black volunteers, and by the end of the war, there were more than 180, 000 African American men in uniform ; a fact which President Lincoln considered instrumental in securing a victory for the Union.

In 1861, the fact that " the faith of all the then thirteen States was expressly plighted and engaged that Union should be perpetual " was considered of major importance by President Abraham Lincoln when declaring the secession of the southern states from the Union to be illegal.

In addition there was the fact that that year's full-size Lincoln sold poorly in all models ; 1958 was a recession year in the U. S. But in spite of that, the Continental Mark III recorded much better sales than the Mark II.

Later, Lincoln teamed up with two other authors, and co-wrote the 1982 book Holy Blood Holy Grail, in which unaware they were relying on forged documents as a source, they stated as a " fact " that the Priory of Sion had existed.

Butler said that Atzerodt admitted that he did in fact go to the meeting in March to help plan the kidnapping of President Lincoln while he attended a play at a hospital.

Despite the fact that their actions were ultimately fruitless, the Eretrians and in particular the Athenians had earned Darius's lasting enmity, and he vowed to punish both cities.

But the striking fact which, in spite of their occurrence, disproved the conspiracy theory is that few of these conspiracies are ultimately successful.

Christians and Jews attempt to coexist ultimately by recognizing the fact that they both worship the same Almighty God, that they both recognize several of the same prophets, and that both religions attempt to make the world a better place.

This mutation, recombination, and the fact that the two chromosome sets ultimately come from either a grandmother or a grandfather on each parental side account for the genetic dissimilarity of siblings.

If a statement's truth value is ultimately tied up in some evaluable fact about the world, that statement is " grounded ".

This ultimately placed responsibility for Sea Lion's success squarely on the shoulders of Raeder and Göring, neither of whom had the slightest enthusiasm for the venture and, in fact, did little to hide their opposition to it.

Eldritch offers to help Mayerson “ become ” whatever he wants, but in fact is so manipulative and controlling of the CHEW-Z alternate reality that Mayerson ultimately decides he'd rather be dead than continue to be manipulated by Eldritch.

In other words, we are urged to believe that Plato's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external world, of modern European philosophy, despite the fact Plato taught that ideas are ultimately real, and different from non-ideal things -- indeed, he argued for a distinction between the ideal and non-ideal realm.

It is supported by various implications in-show, chief of which is the fact that, in travelling to the past to prevent the ' future ' crashing of their plane, the survivors actually set in motion the chain of events that ultimately caused it.

This is further complicated by the fact that many radioisotopes do not decay immediately to a stable state but rather to radioactive decay products within a decay chain before ultimately reaching a stable state.

After being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it.

The continuing deterioration of the financial situation in France – despite the fact that cutbacks in the royal retinue had been made – ultimately forced the king, in collaboration with his current Minister of Finance, Calonne, to call the Assembly of Notables, after a hiatus of 160 years.

Based on this fact, exports are decreasing sharply, which is ultimately affecting the economy of the country.

He rose through the ranks of the army and ultimately became its Emperor, in spite of the fact he was illiterate and almost 70 years old at the time of accession.

However, to indicate this must be done hesitantly, parliament insisted on a slightly different terminology: instead of krachtens de wet the phrase uit kracht van wet was used ; both mean " by force of law " or " pursuant to law "; but the second expression puts somewhat more emphasis on the force of the law and thus on the fact all delegation is ultimately derived from law.

In fact, the layers of destruction Caskey found at Lerna and Tiryns were ultimately attributed to fire.

In both cases, McConnell contends that competence ultimately determines whether a project succeeds or fails, regardless of the development approach taken ; furthermore, he claims that incompetent " impostor organizations " ( which merely imitate the form of successful software development organizations ) are in fact engaging in what he calls Cargo cult software engineering.

Some of these textiles were not in fact quilted, ultimately, but were used as decorative coverings without the heavier batting that was not needed in a tropical climate.

Sotomayor noted that events such as Juror 8 entering a similar knife into the proceeding, doing outside research into the case matter in the first place, and ultimately the jury as a whole making broad, wide ranging assumptions far beyond the scope of reasonable doubt ( such as the inferences regarding the " Old Woman " wearing glasses ) would never be allowed to occur in a real life jury situation, and would in fact have yielded a mistrial.

Some Hawaiians may have believed that Captain James Cook was Lono returned and indeed this fact may have ultimately contributed to Cook's death ( see James Cook-Third voyage ( 1776-1779 )).

In fact, successful innovation is normally a source of temporary market power, eroding the profits and position of old firms, yet ultimately succumbing to the pressure of new inventions commercialised by competing entrants.

He is a greedy climber, not a demonic leader of the masses, and in fact he is ultimately not much more than an obnoxious and sticky-fingered lout, the kind who spits tobacco juice on the marble floors of his predecessors and pockets the ashtrays.

In fact, Wells ultimately had no control over the finished product, with the result that many scenes, although shot, were either truncated or not included in the finished film.

Jameson ultimately reveals his real-life history, which includes the fact that agelessness ( but no kind of immunity to injury ) was imparted to him by an alchemist more than 2, 000 years ago.