He was convinced he was going to lose in 1864. Seizing Atlanta probably saved him from defeat.
Lincoln is probably the president most similar to George W. Bush -- both of whom were extraordinary physical exceptions. Recent articles reported on the President's health being "OK" -- when in fact, the findings were quite extraordinary. With the exception of champion endurance athletes, most people have a pulse rate well over 50 beats per minute.
It is well known that George W. Bush enjoys working on his ranch and chopping wood. In the old biographies of Lincoln, they used to point out that Abe Lincoln was one of the most physically imposing people around, and made money as a wrestler and a rail splitter. These were not effete intellectual snobs -- that the liberal Eastern media favors.
They eschew any suggestion to exceptional but instead are quite insistent on being regarded as average people -- which is characteristic of superior people. Meanwhile, all these mediocre types populating the liberal Eastern media establishment and politics, are quite smaller than life than they'd have us believe from their self-promoting articles.
Kerry and Gore were above average people but not "brilliant" as the media establishment wanted the rest of us to believe. And when W has one fall off his mountain bike riding aggressively over rough terrain, it is regarded as a humiliation rather than the recognition than the normal experience in mountain biking is to take falls rather than riding prissily along on a road bike dressed up like a bike geek. So all these attempts to make Bush look bad just make these liberal Eastern media elitists look like they have no idea what they're talking about -- and they can't help themselves from exposing their own inadequacies -- thinking everybody else is a bullshitter just like they are.
You were right. He siezed it and then he burned it to the ground.
Correct!