A successful army requires discipline, but Confederate soldiers refused to grant authority to anyone they didn't vote for, at least at first. Confederate soldiers were also prone to shirk tasks they deemed menial, and some even left the army without being discharged if they believed they had served long enough. In the highest political chain of command, Jefferson Davis proved inadequate in suppressing the media that railed against his decisions at almost every opportunity. Davis respected the right to free speech, no matter how harmful it was. Donald then uses these points to highlight the successes of the Union Army and Lincoln's administration. The North had the advantage of numerous immigrant conscripts accustomed to receiving orders, so the pecking order was easily established from the beginning. Politically, Abraham Lincoln did not let constitutional rights hinder his goals; Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and threw defamatory journalists in prison. The Union thus had the unity necessary to achieve victory against the South