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The opening of the battle-summer of 1862 found the seat of war in the East, in the tidewater region of Virginia. These were the days when "strategy" was the word. General George B. McClellan's leading idea was to capture Richmond rather than destroy the Confederate army. His own forces lay on both sides of the Chickahominy, in the peninsula below Richmond.
The burdens borne by Lincoln seemed never to tell so seriously on his strength and vitality as in this terrible battle-summer of 1864. For him there had been no respite, no holiday. Others left the heat and dust of Washington for rest and recuperation; but he remained at his post.
The Battle-summer of 1863 A Turn of the Tide Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania A Threatening Crisis Change of Union Commanders Meade succeeds Hooker The Battle of Gettysburg Lincoln's Anxiety during the Fight The Retreat of Lee Union Victories in the Southwest The Capture of Vicksburg Lincoln's Thanks to Grant Returning Cheerfulness Congratulations to the Country Improved State of Peeling at the North State Elections of 1863 The Administration Sustained Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg Lincoln's Address Scenes and Incidents at the Dedication Meeting with Old John Burns Edward Everett's Impressions of Lincoln.
The battle-summer of 1864 went on with the wearisome siege of Petersburg and the frequent efforts to cut the railways which enabled the Confederates to draw supplies from states which as yet had hardly felt the stress of war.
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