Abe also had a bloody great Army at hand
Two comments:
1. The "greatness" of that army can be debated forever. But one thing is beyond much debate. Many (most?) of the Generals that ran that Army were miserably inept and regularly defeated by smaller and much less well equipped forces.
2. Non sequitur. Abe's Army had little or nothing to do with the Executive Orders he issued. The Army (and Navy, and Air Force and Marine Corps) that Obama commands are far superior to Abe's even in relative terms, and they have nothing to do with his latest executive order.