IT LENGTHENED THE WAR.
President Lincoln said, long before the National political campaign of 1864 had opened:
“If the unworthy ambition of politicians and the jealousy that exists in the army could be repressed, and all unite in a common aim and a common endeavor, the rebellion would soon be crushed.”
HIS THEORY OF THE REBELLION.
The President once explained to a friend the theory of the Rebellion by the aid of the maps before him.
Running his long fore-finger down the map, he stopped at Virginia.