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Evaporation of this idea that the war can be quick and bloodless. oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, where tears are falling while the bell is knelling. a sense of mystery the spirit daunted and said, the place is haunted. [ laughter ] manassas is a disaster, mr. president. [ coughs ] draft an official message. i need 500,000 fresh troops and a competent commander. lincoln blames irvin mcdowell s inexperience for the defeat at manassas, so he turns to a brilliant ....
But jefferson davis, like lincoln, is under pressure to attack his enemy s capital. an ambitious plan to engage the union troops is fueled by a southern attitude of confidence and superiority. any man from alabama s worth at least three yanks. we ll be home in a week. now, what the rebel troops may lack in numbers and equipment, they make up for with a rebel pride, a fierce determination to hold on to their southern way of life no matter the consequence. [ chuckles ] with the confederate army rallying just 30 miles from washington and union troops s enlistments ending soon, lincoln is forced to take immediate action. i ll implement this immediately. we will begin building up. but the union s top general, irvin mcdowell, is reluctant to move on the rebels. forward to richmond? you want me to attack richmond within a month? i want you to attack manassas within a month. [ clears throat ] mr. president, with my plan, we will cut off the confederacy ....
Really did recover from willie s death. she slowly decayed, mentally. there s a man that talks to the dead. perhaps i can employ him to reach willie in heaven. please get ahold of yourself now. get ahold ofyourself, abraham! get ahold of this country. with everything around abraham lincoln falling apart his country fractured, his family broken by grief the president must hold on and find the courage to persevere, before he loses the war. when someone watches the news, they want someone they can trust. our job is to cut through the talking points. we re gonna ask the tough questions because there s a lot of conventional wisdom out there that needs to be challenged. what i m doing is making sure that whatever has developed through the day, people are fully informed from coast to coast. we re 24-7 news, but we re really down to the minute. ....
The end of the united states of america. general scott, if you find it necessary to suspend habeas corpus, you may do so. mr. president, you cannot just get me my troops. lincoln said, well, congress is not in session, so i have to do it, because i can t preserve one part of the constitution and let the whole constitution go down. as secessionists are jailed, the railroads clear, and more union regiments begin arriving in washington. troops camp on the white house lawn, in the east room, and in the house chamber in the capitol. [ birds squawking, indistinct conversations ] bolstered by the arrival of troops, the public outcry is for ....
Faces a baptism of fire in his first year of the war. between the fractured union, his crumbling marriage, and the deaths of family, friends, and thousands of patriotic americans, lincoln struggles to maintain control of a country that is slipping away. to truly save the united states, the president will have to confront the war s true cause, the existence of slavery, and give meaning to the deaths of so many of its sons. ....