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Cabinet officers United States Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Friends and associates Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Biography Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters) 1814-1869 Statesmen United States Biography United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography United States Intellectual life 19th century United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1869 United States. War Department BiographyStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaGrinspan, Jon
Summary: At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024