Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to SecessionWhen Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, Ru |
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Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession Russell McClintock Limited preview - 2008 |
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession Russell McClintock Limited preview - 2008 |
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Abraham Lincoln action Adams Diary administration administration’s ALPL anti-Republicans April April 15 Blair Buchanan cabinet Caleb Cushing Cameron Charleston Civil coercion committee compromise concessions conciliation conciliationists Conciliatory Republicans confirmed conflict Congress congressional conservative Constitution convention crisis Crittenden Crofts December December 17 December 22 Democrats disunion Douglas Douglas’s election evacuation Everett February federal final finally find first flag force Fort Sumter forts hard-liners ibid Illinois State Journal inaugural influence issue January January 21 John Kellogg letter Lyman Trumbull March March 15 ment moderate North Northern November office official ofthe Papers partisan party’s peace Pickens political president president’s radical reflected reported Republican Party resolutions Richard Yates seceded secession secessionists Senate Seward significant slave slavery South Carolina Southern unionists Sowle speech Springfield Stampp Sumter territories Thurlow Weed tion Union Upper South vote Washington Weed weeks Whigs William William Jayne Winfield Scott Yates York Herald