美国南北战争之始,林肯总统认为凭借北方在人力、物力、财力上的绝对优势,短期内即可扑灭南方奴隶主军队的叛乱。于是,他按照平时的用人原则,先后任命了几位德高望重的谦谦君子做北方军队的高级将领,想利用他们在人们心中的道德感召力,战胜南方 At the beginning of the American Civil War, President Lincoln believed that in the short term, the insurgency of the armed forces of the southern slave-owners could be extinguished with the absolute superiority of manpower, material and financial resources in the north. Thus, in accordance with his usual employment principle, he appointed several highly respected modest gentlemen to be senior generals of the northern army and wanted to use their moral charisma in the hearts of the people to defeat the south