Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit (Guy C. Fraker LP) Style:Paperback this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest Gettysburg Photography this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest form being in Tennessee to cut the supply lines of Union General Sherman's army that captured and burned Atlanta on their "March to the Sea during which it played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincoln’s nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination