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Article: Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2000
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Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. By Bruce Tap. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xii, 319. $39.95.)
Controversial in its day and argued over by Civil War historians ever since, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War has now received a thorough reappraisal. Congress formed the committee in December 1861, granting it broad powers to investigate military affairs with the aim of furthering the prosecution of the war against the Southern Confederacy. From beginning to end, the committee was dominated by Radical Republicans who believed that military victory and a restored Union were not enough; they also wanted ...