Download or read book Address of Hon James Speed Before the Society of the Loyal Legion at Cincinnati May 4 1887 in Response to the Toast Abraham Lincoln written by James Speed and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln s Forgotten Ally written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln's judge advocate general. In Lincoln's Forgotten Ally, Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war. In his capacity as the administration's chief arbiter and enforcer of military law, Holt strove tenaciously, often against strong resistance, to implement Lincoln's wartime policies, including emancipation. After Lincoln's assassination, Holt accepted responsibility for pursuing and bringing to justice everyone involved in John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy. It was because of this role, in which he is often portrayed as a brutal prosecutor, and because of his hard position toward the South, Leonard contends, that Holt's reputation suffered. Leonard argues, however, that Holt should not be defined by what Southern sympathizers and proponents of the Lost Cause came to think of him. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally seeks to restore Holt, who dedicated both his energy and his influence to ensuring that the Federal victory would bring about lasting positive change for the nation, to his rightful place in American memory.
Download or read book Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Gettysburg Address written by Martin P. Johnson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.
Download or read book An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln written by John George Nicolay and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers buried Lincoln treasure from the papers of one of Lincoln's private secretaries, John G Nicolay. Through the interviews, Nicolay learned that Lincoln broke off his initial engagement to Mary Todd in 1841, that he suffered from frequent despondency, and that he was constantly anxious that his wife would embarrass him.
Download or read book A Reprint of the List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln written by Daniel Fish and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Works written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Filson Club History Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book Lincoln Bibliography 1839 1939 written by Jay Monaghan and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Printed Books on Abraham Lincoln and His Times written by Lincoln Memorial University and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hobbies written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Sewell Stevenson written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
Download or read book Catalogue of Lincoln Books Pamphlets Magazines written by J.B. Speed Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
