Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln clearly understood that his military decisions would be more effectively carried out by conveying his orders through his War Secretary or his general-in-chief on to his generals, who resented his civilian interference with their own plans.

On August 18, 1944 Major David Vivian Currie, commanding the Sherman tanks of C Squadron of the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment ( The South Alberta Regiment ), with attached infantry from " B " and " C " companies of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment ( all of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division ), was ordered to move from Trun to capture and hold the village, and to attempt to link up with the American forces understood to be advancing towards the village from Chambois.

Grant understood the concept of total war and believed, along with Sherman and President Abraham Lincoln, that only the utter defeat of Confederate forces and their economic base would bring an end to the war.

His ideal was Abraham Lincoln, a person who was “ something of a saint and something of a hero ” and understood that democracy in America was greater than " rights "; it was a national ideal.

Grant understood the concept of total war and believed, along with Sherman and President Abraham Lincoln, that only the utter defeat of Confederate forces and their economic base would bring an end to the war.

Because the threatened secession of Maryland would leave the Federal capital of Washington, D. C., an indefensible enclave within the Confederacy, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and imposed martial law in Baltimore and portions of the state, ordering the imprisonment of pro-secession Maryland political leaders at Ft. McHenry and the stationing of Federal troops in Baltimore.

Harding nominated him to serve on the Lincoln Memorial Commission in 1921, and then to a more lucrative position on the Federal Coal Commission in 1922 ; Marshall resigned from both commissions in 1923.

According to the Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA ), the Lincoln Tunnel XBL is the country's HOV facility with the highest number of peak hour persons among HOV facilities with utilization data available, with 23, 500 persons in the morning peak, and 62, 000 passengers during the 4-hour morning peak.

The following article about the history of the Lincoln Highway courtesy of Richard F. Weingroff, " The Lincoln Highway ", Office of Infrastructure, U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, May 7, 2005.

Federal officers arrested Theodore Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, at his remote cabin outside Lincoln under suspicion of being the " Unabomber ", a political terrorist who placed pressure-sensitive bombs inside mailed packages.

President Lincoln called for the states to provide militia troops to the Federal government to suppress the rebellion.

In 1861, just after outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln.

* Federal Bureau of Investigation-American Nazi Party monograph, June 1965-Detailed report on George Lincoln Rockwell and the original American Nazi Party

After Abraham Lincoln had been elected President in 1860, Fish spent time with Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, commander of the Federal Army.

After carrying President Lincoln from Washington on May 9, 1862, USRC Miami assisted navy transports in landing Federal troops at Ocean View, Virginia.

Lincoln couldn't let the state of Maryland fall because it bordered the Federal capital of Washington, D. C., which would have been lost to the Confederacy if Maryland was allowed to secede.

* Federal Writers ' Project in Nebraska, Lincoln Libraries

* 1914: The first $ 5 Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Lincoln on the obverse and vignettes of Columbus sighting land and the Pilgrims ' landing on the reverse.

The five senators, Riegle, Alan Cranston ( Democrat of California ), Dennis DeConcini ( Democrat of Arizona ), John Glenn ( Democrat of Ohio ), and John McCain ( Republican of Arizona ), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board ( FHLBB ).

Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Nathaniel Pope, a prominent Federal judge in early Illinois Territory and a friend of lawyer Abraham Lincoln.

* Lincoln L. Davies, Skull Valley Crossroads: Reconciling Native Sovereignty and the Federal Trust, Maryland Law Review, Volume 68, Number 2, 2009, 290.

However, Harney was replaced by Lyon ( who was promoted to general ), and when Abraham Lincoln made a specific request for Missouri troops to enter Federal service, Jackson withdrew his support.

After the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12 – 13, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation for the states to call up their militia and provide 75, 000 troops to the Federal government to suppress the rebellion.

Wash .) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.

While working for the Federal Writers ' Project in Lincoln, Nebraska, and after having suffered the rejection of several novels, Kees turned to writing poetry — and, for a time, engaged in union organizing and considered himself a communist.

There has never been an annual Federal holiday honoring Lincoln.

During the American Civil War, the Federal Government, under President Abraham Lincoln, forcibly forbade the state of Maryland from joining the Confederacy.

" Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs.

A very close family friend, J. J. Reford, was identified as a person of interest and known associate of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, as the result of a letter dated N. Y. 20th Feby / 65 from Reford being discovered amongst Booth's belongings during the government's search of the actor's room at the National Hotel in Washington, D. C. as part of the official investigation after the assassination.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

Rocky soil yielded poor farming, but the area's abundant timber, combined with water power to run sawmills on the Pemigewasset River and its East Branch, helped Lincoln develop into a center for logging.

Improvements in combustion chamber design and piston form enabled lighter V8 engines to surpass the V12 in power starting from the 1930s ; only the smaller, H-Series Lincoln V-12 remained after WWII and it was replaced by a V8 in 1949.

The views of Lincoln and Johnson prevailed until the election of 1866, which enabled the Radicals to take control of policy, remove former Confederates from power, and enfranchise the Freedmen.

In 1860 the American National Republican Convention included in their electoral platform, on which Abraham Lincoln stood for President, the following statement: "... We brand the recent re-opening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity ".

From her attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thinks it a sea monster, but later identifies it as an underwater vessel capable of great destructive power, after the Abraham Lincoln is attacked and Ned Land strikes the metallic surface of the Nautilus with his harpoon.

Chase articulated the " slave power conspiracy " thesis well before Lincoln, devoting his energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Powerthe conspiracy of Southern slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty.

The first special production in late 1914 were the power trains used in the Fosters of Lincoln made massive artillery tractors to haul howitzers.

Audiences came away impressed by the power of her convictions, which included occasional attacks on Lincoln for being too moderate.

The power pedals are now standard on all models, presumably to cut manufacturing costs ( Crown Victoria LX, Grand Marquis LS and Lincoln Town Car all had them as standard equipment previously ) and side impact airbags are also standard.

They wanted President Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

For power, the Mark II featured the newly offered Lincoln V8.

The slogan " white power " was coined by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, who used the term in a debate with Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party, after Carmichael issued a call for " black power ".

He had no patience with those who claimed to be Republicans and yet refused to abide by the decision of the majority of the party organization did Grimes, Johnson, Lincoln, Pratt, and Trumbull … the sort of active and aggressive man that would be likely to make for himself enemies of men in his own organization who were afraid of his great power and influence, and jealous of him as a political rival.

Abraham Lincoln said that he had given Halleck full power and responsibility as general in chief.

After a number of downsizes, including the power semiconductor and silicon on sapphire operation at Lincoln, Lincolnshire being purchased in January 2000 by Dynex Semiconductor, the company renamed itself Zarlink Semiconductor in 2001.

The Republicans ' Whig-style personality-driven " hurrah " campaign helped stir hysteria in the slave states upon the emergence of Lincoln and intensify divisive tendencies, while Southern " fire eaters " gave credence to notions of the slave power conspiracy among Republican constituencies in the North and West.

As Earl of Lincoln these husbands had immense power with the right to control the estates of their wives.

In the era when animal power dominated transportation there was no safe way to cross east-west in the middle of the range, only nearer its extremes save for the presence of a few rough passages opened mid-range during the colonial era such as Braddock's Road and Forbes Road, later improved into America's first National Roads ( respectively Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway or designated U. S. 40 and U. S. 30 in later years ).

It had no specific legal power although it did have a mandate under the Lincoln Agreement.

The power seat adjustments in a Lincoln Town Car.