Lincoln as Commander in Chief

[Bill Richter]

Good point, Liz. One of the interesting Yankee responses to Southern Militarism was to think about closing West Point during the war. A couple of interesting articles are: T Harry Williams, “The Attack upon West Point during the Civil War,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 25 (Mar. 1939), 491-504; Lori A. Lisowski, "The Future of West Point: Senate Debates on the Military Academy during the Civil War," Civil War History, 34 (March 1998), 5-21.