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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 21. (search)
it to the President. It is not strange that neither the President nor the new Secretary approved it. The reasons which then existed against it in theory, and were afterward demonstrated in practice, are altogether too evident. As this first plan was never reduced to writing, it may be fairly inferred that it was one of those mere suggestions which, like all that had gone before, would serve only to postpone action. The patience of the President was at length so far exhausted that on January 27 he wrote his General War Order No. I, which directed that the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of all the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces, and that the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, the general-in-chief, and all other commanders and subordinates of land and naval forces will severally be held to their strict and full responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. To leave no doubt of his intention that the Arm