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William C. DavisPublication Details
BookFree Press1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E457.2 .D33 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. As one Union soldier and journalist put it, “Washington taught the world to know us, Lincoln taught us to know ourselves. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Lincoln, Abraham, — 1809-1865 — Relations with soldiers
- Lincoln, Abraham, — 1809-1865 — Military leadership
- Lincoln, Abraham, — 1809-1865 — Public opinion
- Soldiers — United States — Correspondence
- Soldiers — United States — Diaries
- Public opinion — United States — History — 19th century
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Personal narratives
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