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<span>At first, Theodore Roosevelt, who was commander-in-chief from 1901 to 1909, seemed an unlikely candidate for the 1912 presidential election. After backing his close friend William Howard Taft to serve as his successor, he disappeared on an extended hunting trip to Africa.</span>
This unexpected Northern win gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation without making it look like a desperate measure.The Proclamation made it ethically impossible for Britain to aid the Confederates - a most significant outcome.The battle also spelt the end for McClellan.Although he had won the battle, he failed to pursue and destroy the Army of Northern Virginia, which the whole of Lincoln's cabinet thought he should have <span>done, and he was promptly replaced by Burnside.</span>
Herbert Hoover, who in World War I served as head of the U.S. Food Administration and became know for his humanitarian efforts in Belgium during the war.
