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Lincoln’s nine-month enlistment strategy put thousands of unprepared Union troops in the field. At the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, scores of ill-trained Union soldiers lost their lives when they were rushed into the fray without proper training. Many of those troops were actually sacrificed on the altar of presidential optimism, victims of Abraham Lincoln’s …
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