Lincoln Going To War Essay

Lincoln had to decide how to handle this act that the south done. Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer troops to fight the Southern rebellion, causing Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then seceded, refusing to fight their fellow Southerners and claiming Lincoln had overreached his authority because Congress was not in session and therefore could not authorize a war. Lincoln didn’t know much about fighting a war and the affairs but he went and self-taught himself by reading military war book at the library of congress but didn’t learn everything from the books he learned from some of the generals and learning that destroying the enemy was more important than capturing the confederates capital. Lincoln when after Major General George B. McClellan; …show more content…
Grant in charge of all Union armies thinking thus was a person he could trust to lead scene Grant had previously won major victories at the Siege of the Donelson, Battle of Vicksburg, and Battle of Chattanooga. Lincoln choose the people in his cabinet and only picked the men he felt most capable of handling the duties of the posts he asked them to fill. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin had called the Lincoln Cabinet "A Team of Rivals." Lincoln was willing to work with other men to help end this war even the ones that low opinions of him; which says how his determination to do whatever it took to preserve the Union. Lincoln was having trouble handling the country’s finical money and wanted to get $200,000 to help support his troops and for anyone who would join would get $100 for their service. Lincoln got Morrill Tariff to help him get the money and Morrill found a way to finance this by making the Morrill Tariff and excise taxes; which raised taxes, and by doing so, some of the states didn’t like this and started to riot and secede from union. He also had Salmon P. Chase who was responsible to keep the nation out of financial ruin and not be in debt to