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and the background story to this telegram is this that in early october, halleck fell to its antietam. was september. mcclellan not follow lee. october 17, i'm sorry. september 17, early october, a couple of weeks after the battle. halleck general sends a telegram to mcclellan quote the, president directs that you crossed the potomac and give battle to the enemy. crickets. we week or so later abraham lincoln the president i states wrote a letter to mcclellan and had it hand delivered delivered. mcclellan gave him back of the hand and did not reply. by this point in time, lincoln was maturing his use of his understand ing, of the use of the telegraph, and he was the messages that would come in to the war department, even they weren't addressed to him. and he saw a message that had come in from mcclellan to halleck saying that they couldn't pursue lee because his horses were sore tongued and fatigued. october 24, five five weeks after battle of antietam, abraham lincoln sits down and responds to a telegram that was not written to him and says, have read your dispatch about sore tongued
and the background story to this telegram is this that in early october, halleck fell to its antietam. was september. mcclellan not follow lee. october 17, i'm sorry. september 17, early october, a couple of weeks after the battle. halleck general sends a telegram to mcclellan quote the, president directs that you crossed the potomac and give battle to the enemy. crickets. we week or so later abraham lincoln the president i states wrote a letter to mcclellan and had it hand delivered delivered....
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they don't like halleck. halleck is also as actually the son of a german immigrant. but that didn't seem to have and yeah. so lincoln hatches this really odd idea let's make kerner a brigadier general and chief aide to henry howell. and halleck says, wait a minute. i mean, doesn't say this. i'm paraphrasing. he says, wait a minute, i don't want lincoln's dear friend hanging outside my office and reporting, you know, around the chain of command to the commander in chief. so that never out lincoln like to keep rivals at other's throats in many ways, he thought it was productive. a lot of. great presidents have played that game with their own supporters. fdr was another who did that. kennedy did it. so anyway, it's a complicated story. i hope you find it detailed in a more complete version in the book. i'm just going to make one very quick point now. lincoln's political was henry clay. henry clay lost new york by about 1200 votes in 1844. if he wins it, he becomes president lincoln. and a lot of whigs were justifiably bitter about that election loss. zachary taylor wins
they don't like halleck. halleck is also as actually the son of a german immigrant. but that didn't seem to have and yeah. so lincoln hatches this really odd idea let's make kerner a brigadier general and chief aide to henry howell. and halleck says, wait a minute. i mean, doesn't say this. i'm paraphrasing. he says, wait a minute, i don't want lincoln's dear friend hanging outside my office and reporting, you know, around the chain of command to the commander in chief. so that never out...
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session or casual conversation would be telling great political stories, maybe about good old charlie halleck in indiana or his buddy friend george mckinnon's advice running. you're a million votes behind and you could win by one vote. and he never got tired of talking about politics. he or he'd call me on year's eve, and he he'd want to know what the political scene in california was like. so that was nixon's idea of of casual conversation and regarding their communiques and styles. i think it's both interesting. they were they were interesting in different ways. but there's an interesting for both of them, an interesting point of history in this regard as well. richard nixon never used teleprompters when he campaigned. you see the candidates say they all rely on teleprompters. it's really stupid. it really richard nixon, when he campaign and rallies, he never used teleprompters. he he addressed informal assemblies or, campaign rallies without teleprompter at all. he prepared studying. we gave him fact sheets and suggested remarks. he'd study them and then prepare his own nose. then he put e
session or casual conversation would be telling great political stories, maybe about good old charlie halleck in indiana or his buddy friend george mckinnon's advice running. you're a million votes behind and you could win by one vote. and he never got tired of talking about politics. he or he'd call me on year's eve, and he he'd want to know what the political scene in california was like. so that was nixon's idea of of casual conversation and regarding their communiques and styles. i think...
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army general in chief, henry halleck, had requested that lieber consider the legal status of irregular combatants as part of this code. and after they became a serious problem, both eastern and western theaters of the conflict, how it selected the german ÉmigrÉ for his expert understanding of international history. the laws of war and with lieber code in hand. u.s. army officers were expected to respect of war status for confederate authorized partizan rangers. it's in the sixties. if you're looking at the articles. yale's avalon project has that if you want to bring it up on your phone, define these units as soldiers acting, as detached cavalry during their irregular operations and wearing uniforms important to the to the articles in the code. but lieber code permitted trial and execution self constituted bands of armed prowlers, brigands and war rebels all different categories governor under the code now though confederate irregulars in northeastern north carolina called themselves partizan rangers. many did not operate under the legal definition and, had never been formally sanction
army general in chief, henry halleck, had requested that lieber consider the legal status of irregular combatants as part of this code. and after they became a serious problem, both eastern and western theaters of the conflict, how it selected the german ÉmigrÉ for his expert understanding of international history. the laws of war and with lieber code in hand. u.s. army officers were expected to respect of war status for confederate authorized partizan rangers. it's in the sixties. if you're...