The Illiberal Lincoln

Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Without much doubt, the grossest misrepresentation of the history of war by traditional military historians is expressed in their maps. There, one sees neat ranks of opposing bars, representing battlefield positioning of troop units, and a series of arrows, representing troop movements. Such is calm and detached armchair "post hoc-erism"—while the reality of an battles is haze, confusion, and extreme fear punctuated by almost random moments of bravery (or perhaps foolishness). During the mid-nineteenth century, wars like the American Civil War, after two minutes of firing rifles loaded with black gunpowder, the battlefield became so clouded that few knew with much certainty what was happening

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• Abraham Lincoln and American Values

  David L Lightner•Canadian Review of American Studies•1995

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