Download or read book THE EVERY DAY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN U S Civil War History Annotated written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had talked much of it for several years past. But favorable arrangements for the book's republication were not completed until about a year ago. Then, though by no means recovered from an attack of pneumonia late in the previous winter, he took up the task of revision and recasting with something of his old-time energy. It was a far heavier task than he had anticipated, but he gave it practically his undivided attention until within three or four weeks of his death. Only when the last pages of manuscript had been despatched to the printer did he yield to the overwhelming physical suffering that had been upon him for a long time past. His death occurred at Santa Barbara, California, on May 11.
Download or read book The Every day Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Francis F. Browne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has gone to a great deal of trouble to collect personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln, which give an insight into the character and nature of the future president. His aim has been not so much to give a definitive character assessment as to give the reader the knowledge to form an individual opinion about the great man.
Download or read book The EVERY DAY LIFE of ABRAHAM LINCOLN Annotated written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestry--The Lincolns in Kentucky--Death of Lincoln's Grandfather--Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks--Mordecai Lincoln--Birth of Abraham Lincoln--Removal to Indiana--Early Years--Dennis Hanks--Lincoln's Boyhood--Death of Nancy Hanks--Early School Days--Lincoln's First Dollar--Presentiments of Future Greatness--Down the Mississippi--Removal to Illinois--Lincoln's Father--Lincoln the Storekeeper--First Official Act--Lincoln's Short Sketch of His Own Life
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War written by James Roberts Gilmore and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print and previously available only in rare bookshops, this intimate portrait is a valuable source of firsthand information about our sixteenth president. Gilmore, a Civil War-era journalist who wrote for the New York Tribune and the Atlantic Monthly, first interviewed Lincoln on the day after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and, over the course of the following years, would come to know the president well. More than just a firsthand account of Lincoln and his wartime leadership, the book also provides a glimpse into Civil War journalism and includes detailed accounts of Gilmore's interactions with Horace Greeley and the story of his behind-enemy-lines interview of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Download or read book The Annotated Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery, emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil liberties in wartime, and the meaning of the terrible suffering caused by the Civil War.
Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln annotated written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, 16th President of the United States of America from 1861 to 1865. This classical historical work covers the life story of one of history's greatest figures from his birth to his assasination, just six days after the end of the American Civil War.
Download or read book The Every Day Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Fisher Browne was an American editor and critic whose most famous work was a detailed biography on Abraham Lincoln called The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn't live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet's political machinations and the war's direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth.
Download or read book Lincoln Reconsidered written by David Herbert Donald and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review). First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln offers a fresh perspective on topics previously shrouded in myth and hagiography and brings the president’s tough-mindedness, strategic acumen, and political flexibility into sharp focus. From Lincoln’s patchwork education to his contradictory interpretations of the Constitution and the legacy of the Founding Fathers, David Herbert Donald reveals the legal mind behind the legend of the Great Emancipator. “Toward a Reconsideration of the Abolitionists” sheds new light on the radicalism of the antislavery movement, while “Herndon and Mary Lincoln” brilliantly characterizes the complicated relationship between two of the president’s closest companions. “Getting Right with Lincoln” and “The Folklore Lincoln” draw on the methods of cultural anthropology to produce a provocative analysis of Lincoln as symbol. No historian has done more to enhance our understanding of Lincoln’s presidency and the causes and effects of the Civil War than Donald. Lincoln Reconsidered is an entertaining and accessible introduction to his work and a must-read for every student of American history.
Download or read book The Lincoln Mailbag written by Harold Holzer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day—correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races who wanted to share their views with him. Here, and in his critically acclaimed volume Dear Mr. Lincoln, editor Harold Holzer has rescued these voices—sometimes eloquent, occasionally angry, at times poetic—from the obscurity of the archives of the Civil War. The Lincoln Mailbag includes letters written by African Americans, which Lincoln never saw, revealing to readers a more accurate representation of the nation’s mood than even the president knew. This first paperback edition of The Lincoln Mailbag includes a new index and fourteen illustrations, and Holzer’s introduction and annotations provide historical context for the events described and the people who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Carl Sandburg and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of the Civil War president, detailing his childhood, his education, career as a lawyer and legislator, his marriage, political campaigns, presidential years, and assassination.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and His Times written by Thomas J. Ebert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln's significance in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Union's preservation and the formation of a new national vision is crucial to comprehending the antebellum and Civil War periods in American history. This is a one-of-a-kind hybrid reference work that combines chronology with almost 400 primary source papers to contextualize Lincoln's life within his historical era. These written materials serve as the foundation upon which historians can construct a picture of Lincoln's America. In addition to important chronology and documents, this work includes introductory essays that summarize the topics of each chapter, brief biographies of those referenced in the book, and a source bibliography. Historical records are the heart of this work. Documents illustrate different viewpoints, to provide a full grasp of the time and place, as well as Lincoln's significance during this era.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America written by William E. Gienapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise, up-to-date, and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life, from pioneer farm boy to politician and lawyer in Springfield, to his stunning election as sixteenth president of the United States. Students will see how Lincoln grew during his years in office, how he developed a keen aptitude for military strategy and displayed enormous skill in dealing with his generals, and how his war strategy evolved from a desire to preserve the Union to emancipation and total war. Gienapp shows how Lincoln's early years influenced his skills as commander-in-chief and demonstrates that, throughout the stresses of the war years, Lincoln's basic character shone through: his good will and fundamental decency, his remarkable self-confidence matched with genuine humility, his immunity to the passions and hatreds the war spawned, his extraordinary patience, and his timeless devotion. A former backwoodsman and country lawyer, Abraham Lincoln rose to become one of our greatest presidents. This biography offers a vivid account of Lincoln's dramatic ascension to the pinnacle of American history.
Download or read book First Hero of the American Civil War Annotated written by Charles A. Ingraham and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln called Elmer Ellsworth, "The greatest little man I ever knew." Ellsworth was killed on May 24, 1861 in the act of taking down a Confederate flag that was visible from Washington, D.C. Lincoln had his remains brought to the White House to lie in state and the Great Emancipator wept over the bier. In this short volume is the story of Ellsworth's selfless devotion to country in taking up arms for the Union immediately upon Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. Having worked in Lincoln's office in Springfield and on his campaign, Ellsworth had become friends with Lincoln. One of the first to fall in the American Civil War, "Remember Ellsworth" became a Union rallying cry. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book One Man Great Enough written by John C. Waugh and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Class of 1846: “A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln’s pre-presidential life.” —The Washington Post Book World How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the one man great enough to risk the fate of the nation on the well-worn but cast-off notion that all men are created equal? Here, award-winning historian John C. Waugh takes readers on Lincoln’s road to the Civil War. From his first public rejection of slavery to his secret arrival in the capital, from his stunning debates with Stephen Douglas to his contemplative moments considering the state of the country he loved, Waugh shows us America as Lincoln saw and described it. Much of this wonderful story is told by Lincoln himself, detailing through his own writing his emergence onto the political scene and the evolution of his beliefs about the Union, the Constitution, democracy, slavery, and civil war. Waugh sets Lincoln’s path in new relief by letting the great man tell his own story, at a depth that brings us ever closer to understanding this mysterious, complicated, and truly great man. “Lively prose backed with solid research.” —Publishers Weekly “[Waugh’s] judicious use of the historical record and his dramatic prose make for an enjoyable read.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Expanded Annotated written by James R. Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, America was more than weary of the bloody civil war. At that moment, James R. Gilmore made a suggestion to Abraham Lincoln to take to Confederate President Jefferson Davis a set of accords by which the North would be willing to have peace.But the purpose of the trip was to propose terms that Lincoln and Gilmore knew Northerners (and the rest of the world) would consider fair and that the Confederates would never accept, thereby gaining Jeff Davis the scorn of the world. It would also help secure Lincoln the 1864 election.What made Gilmore the man to take the message was his familiarity with the South. He'd spent 20 years there as a businessman before the war and knew many prominent people. Right after the attack on Fort Sumter, he was asked to meet with Abraham Lincoln to talk about southern feelings. They subsequently met many times.Gilmore came to Lincoln with his "peace" idea and asked:"...will you allow me five minutes by a slow watch?"Lincoln replied: "Yes, ten; and if you are very entertaining, I'll give you twenty."In a remarkable account of presidential "plausible deniability" before the term was even invented, they had this exchange in the presence of Salmon Chase:GILMORE: "I have [accepted], sir," I answered , "on the condition that you allow me to make such overtures to Davis as will put him entirely in the wrong if he should reject them."LINCOLN: "But, first, another question: Do you understand that I neither suggest, nor request, nor direct you to take this journey?"GILMORE: "I do."LINCOLN: "And will you say so, if it should seem to me to be necessary?"GILMORE: "I will, whether you should ask it of me or not."LINCOLN: "And if those people should hold on to you, -- should give you free lodgings till our election is over, or in any other manner treat you unlike gentlemen, -- do you understand that I shall be absolutely powerless to help you?"GILMORE: "I understand that, sir, fully."LINCOLN: "And you are willing to go entirely upon your own muscle?"GILMORE: "No, sir, not upon my muscle. I suspect it will be more a matter of nerve than of muscle."LINCOLN: "Do you hear that, Mr. Chase?" said Mr. Lincoln, with an indescribable look of comic gravity. " He criticises my English at the very moment I am giving him an office."Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.
Download or read book Lincoln s Men written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers... So wrote Private Joe Hass to Abraham Lincoln, February 20, 1864. Like an extraordinary number of his fellow Union soldiers, he loved Lincoln as a father. Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. In Lincoln's Men, William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president could become "Father Abraham" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did the Army of the Potomac, yearning for the grandeur of McClellan, turn instead to the comfort of Old Abe, and how was this change of loyalty crucial to final victory? How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered men, wandering the inferno of Shiloh or entrenched in the siege of Vicksburg? Why did soldiers visiting Washington feel free to stroll into the White House and sit down to relax, as if it were their own home? Davis removes layers of mythmaking to recapture the moods and feelings of an army facing one of history's bloodiest conflicts. Tracing the popular fate of decisions to invoke conscription, to fire McClellan, and to free the slaves, Lincoln's Men casts a new light on our most famous president -- the light, that is, of the peculiar mass medium that was the Union Army. A motley band of talkers and letter writers, the soldiers spread news of Lincoln's appearances like wildfire, chortling at his ungainly posture in the saddle, rushing up to shake his hand and talk to him. The volunteers knew they could approach "Old Abe," "Honest Abe," "Uncle Abe," and "Father Abraham," and they cheered him thunderously. "The men could not be restrained from so honoring him," said Private Rice Bull. "He really was the ideal of the Army." The story of the making of Father Abraham is the story of America's second revolution, its rebirth. As one Union soldier and journalist put it, "Washington taught the world to know us, Lincoln taught us to know ourselves. The first won for us our independence, the last wrought out our manhood and self-respect."
Download or read book The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln Civil War Classics written by Wayne Whipple and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. Lincoln’s vision as a leader was instilled in him from a young age, and the lessons he learned as a young man carried him into the White House, and into the history books, as one of America’s most commanding figures. The insights offered in this enlightening volume show the formative years of the boy who would become our 16th President.
