Lincoln expert tells of military, political prowess
By Greg Kline
Thursday March 13, 2008
There's no exaggeration in calling Abraham Lincoln the commander-in-chief, in the fullest sense of the term, during the Civil War.
Lincoln was the one who enunciated a clear national goal for the conflict and, through trial and error, the strategy to achieve it both politically and, to an extent unusual among presidents, militarily.
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