Bibliograph

1864, Lincoln at the gates of history, Charles Bracelen Flood

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1864, Lincoln at the gates of history, Charles Bracelen Flood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-491) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1864

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

232979161

Responsibility statement

Charles Bracelen Flood

Sub title

Lincoln at the gates of history

Summary

Historian-biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West. In that crucial year, the Civil War was far from won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally bring victory. At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to negotiate to leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and was unknowingly stalked by John Wilkes Booth.--From publisher description

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Eighteen sixty-four

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