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Author : Denton Jaques Snider
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Lincoln at Richmond written by Denton Jaques Snider and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denton Jaques Snider
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021988638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Lincoln at Richmond: A Dramatic Epos of the Civil War written by Denton Jaques Snider and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling retelling of President Abraham Lincoln's visit to Richmond, Virginia during the height of the Civil War, weaving historical fact with fictional drama. Snider's vivid descriptions bring the intense emotions and high stakes of the war to life, while also shedding light on the political climate of the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Denton J. Snider
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ISBN 13 : 9781331303794
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Lincoln at Richmond written by Denton J. Snider and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln at Richmond: A Dramatic Epos of the Civil War Lincoln At Richmond. Prologue. Look ye at Abraham Lincoln now afloat Upon the little craft caller River Queen, Whose keel runs kissing the Potomac's ripples For miles and miles in tender undertone Attuned to the bright joys of loving Spring, Which thrill his spouse, the Earth, to glad creation After the winter's barren godlessness. On either side of the enraptured boat The lounging banks stretch out sunning themselves In overflow of vernal ecstacy That breathes the season's subtle harmonies Of greening fields and open-hearted hills Bedight with peeping eyelets flowery, And the fleet play of Nature's iridescence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Gustavus Adolphus Myers
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Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln in Richmond written by Gustavus Adolphus Myers and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933402X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book 1865 written by Harold Holzer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the conspirators. In this illuminating collection, prominent historians of nineteenth-century America offer insightful overviews of the individuals, events, and issues on 1865 that shaped the future of the United States. Following an introduction by renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, nine new essays explore the end of the Civil War, Lincoln’s death, and the start of the tentative peace in 1865. Michael Vorenberg discusses how Lincoln shepherded through the House of Representatives the resolution sending the Thirteenth Amendment to the states for ratification, John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard examine the partnership of Lincoln’s war management and General Ulysses S. Grant’s crucial last thrusts against Robert E. Lee, and Richard Striner recounts how Lincoln faced down Confederate emissaries who proposed immediate armistice if Lincoln were to reverse the Emancipation Proclamation. Ronald C. White Jr. offers a fresh look at Lincoln’s second inaugural address, and Richard Wightman Fox provides a vivid narrative of Lincoln’s dramatic walk through Richmond after the Confederates abandoned their capital. Turning to Lincoln’s assassination, Edward Steers Jr. relates the story of Booth’s organizational efforts that resulted in the events of that fateful day, and Frank J. Williams explains the conspirators’ trial and whether they should have faced military or civilian tribunals. Addressing the issue of black suffrage, Edna Greene Medford focuses on the African American experience in the final year of the war. Finally, Holzer examines the use of visual arts to preserve the life and legacy of the martyred president. Rounding out the volume are a chronology of national and international events during 1865, a close look at Lincoln’s activities and writings from January 1 through April 14, and other pertinent materials. This thoughtful collection provides an engaging evaluation of one of the most crucial years in America’s evolution.
Author : Edwin Bonaparte Webb
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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Memorial Sermons written by Edwin Bonaparte Webb and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822523130
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)
Download or read book On to Richmond written by James R. Arnold and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the early battles of the Civil War, including the First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam, and discusses the affects of the war on both Confederate and Union soldiers.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Burrus M. Carnahan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173663
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Lincoln on Trial written by Burrus M. Carnahan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of recent controversies and legal actions related to America's treatment of enemy prisoners in the Middle East and Guantánamo Bay, the regulation of government during wartime has become a volatile issue on the global scene. By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war could be considered questionable, and his critics, past and present, have not hesitated to charge that he was a war criminal. In Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War, Burrus M. Carnahan conducts an extensive analysis of Lincoln's leadership throughout the Civil War as he struggled to balance his own humanity against the demands of his generals. Carnahan specifically scrutinizes Lincoln's conduct toward Southerners in light of the international legal standards of his time as the president wrestled with issues that included bombardment of cities, collateral damage to civilians, seizure and destruction of property, forced relocation, and the slaughter of hostages. Carnahan investigates a wide range of historical materials from accounts of the Dahlgren raid to the voices of Southern civilians who bore the brunt of extensive wartime destruction. Through analysis of both historic and modern standards of behavior in times of war, a sobering yet sympathetic portrait of one of America's most revered presidents emerges.
Author : Steve Norder
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214580
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by Steve Norder and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military. One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country’s history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch a military campaign. In Lincoln Takes Command, author Steve Norderdetails this exciting, little-known week in Civil War history. Lincoln recognized the strategic possibilities offered by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s ongoing Peninsula Campaign and the importance of seizing Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Gosport Navy Yard. For five days, the president spent time on sea and land, studied maps, spoke with military leaders, suggested actions, and issued direct orders to subordinate commanders. He helped set in motion many events, including the naval bombardment of a Confederate fort, the sailing of Union ships up the James River toward the enemy capital, an amphibious landing of Union soldiers followed by an overland march that expedited the capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the navy yard, and the destruction of the Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia. The president returned to Washington in triumph, with some urging him to assume direct command of the nation’s field armies. The week discussed in Lincoln Takes Command has never been as heavily researched or told in such fine detail. The successes that crowned Lincoln’s short time in Hampton Roads offered him a better understanding of, and more confidence in, his ability to see what needed to be accomplished. This insight helped sustain him through the rest of the war.
Author : John C. Waugh
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933352X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lincoln and the War's End written by John C. Waugh and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of his reelection on November 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln called on the nation to “re-unite in a common effort, to save our common country.” By April 9 of the following year, the Union had achieved this goal with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. In this lively volume, John C. Waugh chronicles in detail Lincoln’s role in the final five months of the war, revealing how Lincoln and Grant worked together to bring the war to an end. Beginning with Lincoln’s reelection, Waugh highlights the key military and political events of those tumultuous months. He recounts the dramatic final military campaigns and battles of the war, including William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia to the sea; the Confederate army’s attempt to take Nashville and its loss at the battle of Franklin; and the Union victory at Fort Fisher that closed off the Confederacy’s last open port. Other events also receive attention, including Sherman’s march through the Carolinas and the burning of Columbia; Grant’s defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Five Forks, and Lincoln’s presence at the seat of war during that campaign; the Confederate retreat from Petersburg and Richmond; and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Weaving the stories together chronologically, Waugh also presents the key political events of the time, particularly Lincoln’s final annual message to Congress, passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, the Second Inaugural, Lincoln’s visit to Richmond the day after it fell, and Lincoln’s final days and speeches in Washington after the Confederate surrender. An epilogue recounts the farewell march of all the Union armies through Washington, D.C., in May 1865. Throughout, Waugh enlivens his narrative with illuminating quotes from a wide variety of Civil War participants and personalities, including New Yorker George Templeton Strong, southerner Mary Boykin Chesnut, Lincoln’s secretary John Hay, writer Noah Brooks, and many others.
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442900768
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John George Nicolay
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by John George Nicolay and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John George Nicolay
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by John George Nicolay and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ward hill Lamon
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ISBN 13 : 9781980641902
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Ward hill Lamon and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President (1872) by Ward Hill Lamon.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the Mexican-American War. After a single term, he returned to Illinois and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas; Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860.Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House. AuthorWard Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 - May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, having been sent by Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia.Lamon's relation with Lincoln has been traced by Clint Clay Tilton in Lincoln and Lamon. Lamon was born near Winchester, Virginia, studied medicine for two years, and moved to Danville, Illinois, when he was 19 to live with relatives. He attended the University of Louisville to receive his law degree and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1851. In 1850, he moved back to Virginia, married Angelina Turner, and then returned to Illinois to practice law. Angelina was a daughter of Ehud and Priscilla Strode Turner, whose house at Beddington, West Virginia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the Priscilla Strode Turner House. Angelina died in April 1859, leaving a daughter, Dorothy, who was raised in Danville by Lamon's sister, Mrs. William Morgan. In November 1860, Lamon married Sally Logan, daughter of Judge Stephen T. Logan. Logan had been Lincoln's law partner from 1851 to 1854.Shortly after his inauguration in 1861, Lincoln appointed Lamon United States Marshal of the District of Columbia; he resigned his commission in June 1865. One of Lamon's first acts as Marshal was to visit Fort Sumter, South Carolina in March 1861, to meet with Major Robert Anderson, commander of the fort, and Governor Francis Pickens. Reports vary on Lamon's responsibilities with regard to that visit.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1862-1863 written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John George Nicolay
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613108230
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History written by John George Nicolay and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was sixth in direct line of descent from Samuel Lincoln, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1638. Following the prevailing drift of American settlement, these descendants had, during a century and a half, successively moved from Massachusetts to New Jersey, from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and from Virginia to Kentucky; while collateral branches of the family eventually made homes in other parts of the West. In Pennsylvania and Virginia some of them had acquired considerable property and local prominence. In the year 1780, Abraham Lincoln, the President's grandfather, was able to pay into the public treasury of Virginia "one hundred and sixty pounds, current money," for which he received a warrant, directed to the "Principal Surveyor of any County within the commonwealth of Virginia," to lay off in one or more surveys for Abraham Linkhorn, his heirs or assigns, the quantity of four hundred acres of land. The error in spelling the name was a blunder of the clerk who made out the warrant. With this warrant and his family of five children—Mordecai, Josiah, Mary, Nancy, and Thomas—he moved to Kentucky, then still a county of Virginia, in 1780, and began opening a farm. Four years later, while at work with his three boys in the edge of his clearing, a party of Indians, concealed in the brush, shot and killed him. Josiah, the second son, ran to a neighboring fort for assistance; Mordecai, the eldest, hurried to the cabin for his gun, leaving Thomas, youngest of the family, a child of six years, by his father. Mordecai had just taken down his rifle from its convenient resting-place over the door of the cabin when, turning, he saw an Indian in his war-paint stooping to seize the child. He took quick aim through a loop-hole, shot, and killed the savage, at which the little boy also ran to the house, and from this citadel Mordecai continued firing at the Indians until Josiah brought help from the fort. It was doubtless this misfortune which rapidly changed the circumstances of the family. Kentucky was yet a wild, new country. As compared with later periods of emigration, settlement was slow and pioneer life a hard struggle. So it was probably under the stress of poverty, as well as by the marriage of the older children, that the home was gradually broken up, and Thomas Lincoln became "even in childhood ... a wandering laboring boy, and grew up literally without education.... Before he was grown he passed one year as a hired hand with his uncle Isaac on Watauga, a branch of the Holston River." Later, he seems to have undertaken to learn the trade of carpenter in the shop of Joseph Hanks in Elizabethtown.
