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.

Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states.

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.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.

The one representing Illinois was provided with a wreath of leaves and flowers, with which it is presumed she meant to crown or encircle the man they delighted to honor, but Mr. Lincoln very quietly said: ' Wear it yourself, dear, they become you better than me.

William H. Bonney ( born William Henry McCarty, Jr. c. November 23, 1859 – c. July 14, 1881 ), better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.

Other orders addressed the need to stem rising desertion ( one from Lincoln combined with incoming mail review, the ability to shoot deserters, and better camp picket lines ), more and better drills, stronger officer training, and for the first time, combining the federal cavalry into a single corps.

Although the area served by Belmont was largely rural, it did cover the more industrial centres of Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincoln and it was felt the region would be better served from Leeds rather than from Norwich.

In a letter to the regimental surgeon, Lincoln Stone, Frank Shaw wrote :" We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers .... We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company.

During his final years, Muntz drove a customized Lincoln Continental with a television installed in the dashboard: Muntz claimed it helped him " drive better ".

The witch-doctor alluded to is better known by the name of the cunning man, and has a large practice in the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham.

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.

Garrett was charged with tracking down and arresting an alleged friend from his saloon keeping days, Henry McCarty, a jail escapee and Lincoln County War participant who often went by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, but is better known as " Billy the Kid ".

However, in 1955, the company decided to spin Imperial off as its own make and division to better compete with its rivals, Lincoln and Cadillac.

After 1980, Lincoln remained out of the luxury mid-size market for a couple of years, then re-entered the market in 1982 with the downsized Lincoln Continental ; the midsize Continental was also a clone of a midsize Ford, but fared far better due to extensive differentiation between it and its Ford counterparts.

The 1991 – 1995 Police Package Taurus, 1991 – 1994 Lincoln Continental and 1995 Ford Windstar had a high-output version of the 3. 8 with better cylinder heads and other modifications.

Lincoln Barrett, better known by the stage name High Contrast ( born 18 September 1979, Penarth, Cardiff ), is a Welsh drum and bass DJ and producer.

The J. F. Lincoln Foundation is a non-profit, welding education organization founded in 1936 to promote welding as a better method of joining metals and to promote welding as a career choice.

Lincoln Castle remained in use as a prison and law court into modern times, and is one of the better preserved castles in England ; the Crown Courts continue to this day.

Waite found work in New Mexico with John Tunstall, who was later to be one of the leaders of the Tunstall-McSween vs. Dolan war, better known as the Lincoln County War.

Other colonists thought Port Lincoln or Encounter Bay would be better sites.

The league, hoping to kill off their APFL competition and make the Capitols better, talked with the St. Joseph Storm of the APFL and interested them in merging with the Lincoln Capitols and becoming the St. Joseph Storm.

" Since her school only went up to the eighth grade, it was decided that she would be sent away to the Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville, created to provide a better educational opportunity in the Jim Crow era.

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

Since Lincoln rather than Johnson had appointed Stanton, the defense maintained the president had not violated the Act.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

RTGs had been used for years in planetary exploration without mishap: the Lincoln Experimental Satellites 8 / 9, launched by the U. S. Department of Defense, had 7 % more plutonium on board than Galileo, and the two Voyager spacecraft each carried 80 % as much plutonium as Galileo did.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

* 1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.

Three presidents have appointed justices who collectively served more than 100 years: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

Lincoln put up with the annoyance rather than risk alienating some associate or friend of a powerful politician or opinion maker.

In his letter, he stated that he would step aside if the National Union Convention would nominate someone other than Lincoln.

"< ref > See Dr. Anne Beidler's The Addiction of Mary Todd Lincoln < http :// lincoln. coffeetownpress. com /></ ref > Initially a working class drug, laudanum was cheaper than a bottle of gin or wine, because it was treated as a medication for legal purposes and not taxed as an alcoholic beverage.

Lincoln vetoed the Radical plan, the Wade – Davis Bill of 1864, which was much more strict than the Ten-Percent Plan.

The men remanded by order of President Lincoln were sent to a prison in Iowa, where more than half died.

This theory, with no other basis than Lincoln and Leigh's hypothesis, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

Alger was commissioned to give Abraham Lincoln a biographical treatment but again it was Alger the boys ' novelist opting for thrills rather than facts.

Rather than be buried with her husband Ralph ( who was not buried with his first wife, though his monument has effigies of himself and his two wives ) she was entombed next to her mother in the magnificent sanctuary of Lincoln Cathedral.

The title of Duke of Newcastle is extinct since 1988 ; however the title of Earl of Lincoln is still extant within the family due to a very distant relative, while the Barony of Ogle is in abeyance, as there is more than one person who has a legal right to claim the title.