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Edwin M. Stanton was the secretary of war who, under Pres. Abraham Lincoln, tirelessly presided over the giant Union military establishment during most of the American Civil War (1861–65). Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1836, Stanton became a highly successful attorney.
20 Μαρ 2024 · Lincoln relied on Stanton’s advice and his ruthless approach in bringing the war to an end. Such was the strength of this unlikely relationship, Stanton switched his political support to favour Lincoln’s Republicans, and was deeply affected by the president’s death in 1865.
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory.
It emphasizes three features of government: it is human-made, it seeks to safeguard a minimum level of security through police, justice, and military, and it exists in artifcial societies (Russell 1962 [1932]) or imagined communities (Anderson 2005).
his biography of Edwin M. Stanton will be the scholarly standard on this important historical figure for years to come. As Marvel points out, despite Stanton’s outsized historical importance, the secretary of war under President Lincoln has not received as much scholarly atten - tion as one would expect, and Harold Hyman’s two-generations-old
government in society: human instinct and intent, tribal community, and global society. The next section provides the histori-cal context for government and society under democracy, and conceptual-izes the monumental changes in the institutional superstructure during the 1800s that provided the foundation for modern democratic government.
Stanton transformed the Union army from a fighting force into an army of occupation, to occupy and pacify the South. Reading the almost daily reports of violence in the South, Stanton believed that the Army had to remain in the South, to protect southern blacks and Union sympathizers.
