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Book Synopsis William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis by : Lawrence M. Denton
Download or read book William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis written by Lawrence M. Denton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Abraham Lincoln was taking center stage in a divided country, a political rival-turned-ally was exerting a major influence on national affairs. William Henry Seward, U.S. senator and former New York governor, lost the Republican Party nomination but aided Lincoln by touring the country on behalf of the Republican ticket. As Southern states prepared to withdraw from the Union, Secretary of State Seward sought to reunite the country. This biography explores Seward's political power and the theory that, as president, he might have prevented the Civil War.
Book Synopsis A Secession Crisis Enigma by : Daniel W. Crofts
Download or read book A Secession Crisis Enigma written by Daniel W. Crofts and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Diary of a Public Man," published anonymously in several installments in the North American Review in 1879, claimed to offer verbatim accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas -- among others -- in the desperate weeks just before the start of the Civil War. Despite repeated attempts to decipher the Diary, historians never have been able to pinpoint its author or determine its authenticity. In A Secession Crisis Enigma, Daniel W. Crofts solves these longstanding mysteries. He identifies the author, unravels the intriguing story behind the Diary, and deftly establishes its contents as largely genuine. According to Crofts, the Diary was not a diary at all but a memoir, probably written shortly before it appeared in print. The mastermind who created it, New York journalist William Henry Hurlbert (1827--1895), successfully perpetrated one of the most difficult feats of historical license -- he pretended to have been a diarist who never existed. Crofts contends, however, that Hurlbert's work was far from fictional. Time after time, the Diary introduces material virtually impossible to fabricate along with previously concealed information that was corroborated only after its publication. The Diary bristles with precise details regarding the struggle to shape Lincoln's cabinet and the composition of his inaugural address. Crofts's careful analysis, accompanied by the full text of the Diary in an appendix, offers a bold new perspective on the frantic scramble to reverse southern secession while avoiding the abyss of war. Hurlbert, a long-forgotten eccentric genius, emerges vividly here. Part detective story, part biography, and part a detailed narrative of events in early 1861, A Secession Crisis Enigma presents a compelling answer to an enduring mystery and brings "The Diary of a Public Man" back into the historical lexicon.
Book Synopsis The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 by : P. J. Staudenraus
Download or read book The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 written by P. J. Staudenraus and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William Henry Seward by : John M. Taylor
Download or read book William Henry Seward written by John M. Taylor and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kirkus Reviews: A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor (1987)- -offers neither much original scholarship nor
Book Synopsis Unionists in Virginia by : Lawrence M. Denton
Download or read book Unionists in Virginia written by Lawrence M. Denton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the Civil War was preventable is a debate that began shortly after Appomattox and continues today. But even earlier, in 1861, a group of Union-loyal Virginians--led by George Summers, John Brown Baldwin, John Janney and Jubal Early--felt war was avoidable. In the statewide election for delegates to the Secession Convention that same spring, the Unionists defeated the Southern Rights Democrats with a huge majority of the votes across the state. These heroic men unsuccessfully negotiated with Secretary of State William Henry Seward to prevent the national tragedy that would ensue. Author and historian Lawrence M. Denton traces this remarkable story of Virginians working against all odds in a failed attempt to save a nation from war.
Book Synopsis William Henry Seward by : Thornton Kirkland Lothrop
Download or read book William Henry Seward written by Thornton Kirkland Lothrop and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of William H. Seward by : William Henry Seward
Download or read book The Works of William H. Seward written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William H. Seward: 1846-1861 by : William Henry Seward
Download or read book William H. Seward: 1846-1861 written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Statesmen William Henry Seward by : Thornton Kirkland Lothrop
Download or read book American Statesmen William Henry Seward written by Thornton Kirkland Lothrop and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln’s First Crisis by : William Bruce Johnson
Download or read book Lincoln’s First Crisis written by William Bruce Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln’s First Crisis concerns five of the most consequential months in American history: December 1860 through April 1861. When Abraham Lincoln swore his oath as president, the United States was disintegrating. Seven states had seceded, and as many as eight seemed poised to join them, depending upon how the new president handled the secession crisis and its flashpoint: Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the heart of the rebellion. The fate of the republic hung in the balance. The Sumter crisis has been hotly debated and deeply researched for more than 150 years. In this thoughtful reassessment, William Bruce Johnson combines thorough research and the latest historiography with a litigator’s methodical analysis and a storyteller’s eye for meaningful detail. Shortly after taking office, Lincoln decided upon a plan to avoid war with the seceded states while keeping his inaugural promise to maintain a Union military presence in the South. Because he chose not to reveal his plan to anyone, rumors soon spread that he was simply afraid to act. One source of such rumors was Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Henry Seward. Resentful that Lincoln had deprived him of the Republican nomination and convinced that Lincoln lacked the political sophistication necessary to deal with the secession crisis, Seward decided to negotiate with the Confederacy on his own and in secret. General Winfield Scott, meanwhile, the Union’s most senior military officer, had for a decade depended upon Seward for political advice, and now considered himself under orders from Seward, not the president. Johnson traces how Seward and Scott sabotaged Lincoln’s plan. From this account, from his examination of various personalities (such as that of Fort Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderson), and from his granular research into aspects of the Order of Battle in Charleston, Johnson has here constructed a new narrative of this crucial period, culminating in a new theory of how and why the Civil War began as it did, and how and why, if the new president’s orders had been properly carried out by Seward and Scott, it might have been averted.
Book Synopsis The Works of William H. Seward by : William Henry Seward
Download or read book The Works of William H. Seward written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Situation and the Duty by : William Henry Seward
Download or read book The Situation and the Duty written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seward discusses the faults and virtues of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of Grant's election to the presidency.
Book Synopsis Turbulent Times by : Stephen G. Yanoff
Download or read book Turbulent Times written by Stephen G. Yanoff and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnificent new book, Stephen G. Yanoff offers a fresh and compelling portrait of William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Seward, best known for the purchase of Alaska, also served as governor of New York, United States senator, and Lincoln’s secretary of state during the Civil War. Exhaustively researched, drawing on hundreds of sources, TURBULENT TIMES sheds new light on this complex historical figure and the crucial role he played in shaping the fate of our nation. Most enlightening, the William Henry Seward who comes into focus in this superb narrative is a person of great intellect and curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity in his personal and private life.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the Decision for War by : Russell McClintock
Download or read book Lincoln and the Decision for War written by Russell McClintock and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller group of people until finally it was Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or by sword.
Book Synopsis William H. Seward by : Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)
Download or read book William H. Seward written by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
