Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “Civil challenges” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Civil challenges” and its relation with “Abraham Lincoln management strategies.” The research also analyzes many aspects of “Civil challenges” and tries to gauge its effect on “Abraham Lincoln management strategies.” Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for “Civil challenges,” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Civil challenges” on “Abraham Lincoln management strategies.”

Table of Contents

ABSTRACTI

INTRODUCTION1

DISCUSSION1

Tactics of Lincoln to calm people2

Union Strategy3

Management of black soldiers3

Management of the people in South5

The Process of Emancipation5

Management of southern elites5

Reconstruction of the economy7

CONCLUSION7

WORKS CITED8

How Lincoln met the challenges of the Civil War

Introduction

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States in numerical order of service, but he is consistently ranked at the top of every list of great presidents, sharing the honor only with George Washington. Lincoln became president at a critical moment when the Union was in greatest danger of division from the Civil War. He prosecuted the war and was assassinated by a gunshot just days after the main Confederate Army surrendered. The longer-term implications of the war had yet to be resolved, but he must be credited with beginning the process of the emancipation of the slaves.

Abraham Lincoln was born in the most modest of circumstances on Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His entire childhood was spent on the very edge of poverty as his family made repeated fresh starts on the western frontier. Abraham was the son, of Thomas Lincoln, a carpenter and farmer, who was not a shiftless loafer as sometimes portrayed, but rather an honest, conscientious man who was trusted by his neighbors.

Discussion

Lincoln's international policy was aimed at preventing foreign intervention in the Civil War, and it succeeded through the efforts of Secretary of State William Seward and, most especially, those of the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Charles Francis Adams.

Tactics is concerned with deploying troops effectively at a local level, while strategy involves thinking more broadly. Military theorist Karl von Clausewitz provided a famous definition of the distinction between the two concerns, he had described that tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war (Guelzo, 40). While, the Union and Confederacy employed identical weapons and battlefield tactics, their respective strategies were governed by different wartime objectives: reunion and independence.

Tactics of Lincoln to calm people

The tactics used by both the Confederacy and the Union tended to be similar. Early in the Civil War, most generals' approach to battle mirrored that of the French general Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon did not invent this style of warfare; he was merely its most effective practitioner. Napoleonic tactics were oriented toward offense and dramatic victories (Neely 50). The hallmark of Napoleonic-era warfare was the massed infantry assault, where troops would advance within the range of the enemy, fire a volley, and then charge forth with bayonets ...