Question

president lincoln favored a strategy that focused on capturing and holding confederate territory—namely richmond, the confederate capital—not the destruction of the confederate armies.

Answer 1

To say that President Lincoln favored the policy of capturing Confederate territory is False.

During the Civil War:

• Richmond was only captured towards the end of the war
• Union armies faced a lot of defeat as they tried to capture territory

President Lincoln might not have favored the killing of the rebel Confederates but on several occasions he ordered his generals to keep pursing the fleeing Confederates to destroy their armies.

In conclusion, President Lincoln favored the destruction of Confederate armies.

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