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A Lincoln dialogue / James A. Rawley ; edited and with a foreword by William G. Thomas.

Rawley, James A. (Author). Thomas, William G., 1964- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780803249967 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803249969 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: x, 585 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Lincoln is nominated -- The campaign of 1860 -- Interregnum -- From Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln frames a cabinet -- The first inaugural -- Fort Sumter crisis -- The first Civil War congress -- The loyalty question in border slave states -- Missouri, an unruly union partner -- Frémont proclaims freedom in Missouri -- First Bull Run -- Enter McClellan -- The Thirty-Seventh Congress, second session -- Grant and the war in the west -- Exit McClellan, enter Pope, and another Bull Run -- Antietam and another McClellan exit -- Emancipation -- The fall of 1862 -- A winter of discontent -- The Supreme Court and Lincoln's war powers -- Hooker and Chancellorsville -- Vallandigham and civil liberties -- Arming Black soldiers -- Gibraltar of the west -- Gettysburg -- Lincoln vs. Seymour -- The emergence of Grant -- Thirty-Eighth Congress, first session -- Reconstruction -- Grant moves south -- Presidential nomination saga -- The election of 1864 -- The last Civil War congress -- The Hampton Roads Peace Conference -- Death of Lincoln.