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Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years
Title:
Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years
ISBN:
9780156026116

9780156027526
Edition:
One-volume ed.
Publication Information:
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1974, ©1966]
Physical Description:
xiv, 762 pages illustrations 21 cm.
General Note:
Abridged by the author.
Contents:
Wilderness Beginnings -- New Salem Days -- The Young Legislator -- Lawyer in Springfield -- "I Am Going To Be Married" -- Running for Congress -- Congressman Lincoln -- Back Home in Springfield -- Restless Growing America -- The Deepening Slavery Issue -- The Great Debates -- Strange Friend and Friendly Stranger -- "Only Events Can Make a President" -- "Mary, We're Elected" -- The House Dividing -- "I Bid You an Affectionate Farewell" -- America Whither?--Lincoln Journeys to Washington -- Lincoln Takes the Oath as President -- Sumter and War Challenge--Call for Troops -- Jefferson Davis--His Government -- Turmoil--Fear--Hazards -- Bull Run--McClellan--Fremont--The Trent Affair -- The Politics of War--Corruption -- Donelson--Grant--Shilob--Monitor and Merrimac--"Seven Days"--The Draft -- Second Bull Run--Bloody Antietam--Chaos -- The Involved Slavery Issue--Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -- McClellan's "Slows"--Election Losses--Fredericksburg--'62 Message -- Thunder over the Cabinet--Murfreesboro -- Final Emancipation Proclamation, '63 -- "More Horses Than Oats"--Office Seekers -- Hooker--Chancellorsville--Calamity -- Will Grant Take Vicksburg? -- Deep Shadows--Lincoln in Early '63 -- The Man in the White House -- Gettysburg--Vicksburg Siege--Deep Tides, '63 -- Lincoln at Storm Center -- Chickamauga--Elections Won, '63 -- Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg -- Epic '63 Draws to a Close -- Grant Given High Command, '64 -- Will His Party Renominate Lincoln? -- Jay Cooke--Cash for War--Hard Times and Flush -- Chase Thirsts to Run for President -- Spring of '64--Blood and Anger -- Grant's Offensive, '64--Free Press--Lincoln Visits the Army -- The Lincoln-Johnson Ticket of the National Union Party -- Washington on the Defensive--Peace Babblings -- "The Darkest Month of the War"--August '64 -- The Fierce Fall Campaign of '64 -- Lincoln's Laughter--and His Religion -- The Pardoner -- The Man Who Had Become the Issue -- Election Day, November 8, 1864 -- Lincoln Names a Chief Justice -- The "Lost Army"--The South in Fire and Blood--War Prisons -- The Bitter Year of '64 Comes to a Close -- "Forever Free"--The Thirteenth Amendment -- Heavy Smoke--Dark Smoke -- The Second Inaugural -- Endless Executive Routine -- Lincoln Visits Grant's Army--Grant Breaks Lee's Line -- Richmond Falls--Appomattox -- "Not in Sorrow, but in Gladness of Heart" -- Negotiations--An Ominous Dream -- The Calendar Says Good Friday -- Blood on the Moon -- Shock--The Assassin--A Stricken People -- A Tree Is Best Measured when It's Down -- Vast Pageant--Then Great Quiet.
Reading Level:
1170 L Lexile
Genre:
Summary:
Brings to life the young country lawyer as well as the president who became the central figure in the wildest storm that ever shook the American Republic.
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