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Nisbet was a Georgia farmer who rose to command a regiment. His excellent and personal memoirs cover action in major battles in both theaters. Since he campaigned under General Lee as well as in the Atlanta Campaign, his accounts serve as a common resource for all modern literature on such battles as Antietam, Chickamauga, and Atlanta. Nisbet is remarkably difficult to find in the original edition.

In original bright blue boards; light soiling and mottling on spine; light foxing; light chipping of extremities; else very good.

	Price: $675.00

Fine short history of a unit that served under Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Kennesaw Mountain. Very uncommon; not in Nevins.

Nicely rebound with original front board cloth that is unusually bright; minor damage, including small tears, to the tops of a few leaves, but without loss; Light toning as usual; else very good. Quite scarce.

	Price: $750.00

Much useful information concerning Confederate activities in the Trans-Mississippi. Not in Dornbusch.

Ex-library; lightly soiled; light foxing; weak rear hinge; else very good; scarce & much sought after.

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First rate brigade history of a famous VI Corps unit, w/useful information on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 15th, 23rd, 10th, and 40th New Jersey.

Light bump; very light wear of extremities; else very good. Bright.

	Price: $395.00

These heavies were recruited to garrison fixed defenses around Washington. In May, 1864 General Grant ordered then into the field and the suffered heavily during the battles of the Overland campaign and Petersburg. The 4th New York Heavy Artillery fought at Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Reams, Station, and many other places. Their history is fulsome, and well-illustrated. Includes illustrated roster.

Rebacked with original boards and spine; light bump; light chipping of extremities; else very good. The gilt lettering and red devices on front board and spine are bright and attractive.

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The 6th Ohio was a Cincinnati outfit, based around a famous militia battalion, The Guthrie Greys. As a volunteer regiment they served in the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland , seeing heavy action at Shiloh , Stones River , and Chattanooga . Hannaford’s account is rich in detail and written very shortly after the war. A good, reliable history.

Bound in ¾ leather with marbled boards and end pages; water stained throughout; light foxing; light rubbing; light chipping of extremities; else very good.

	Price: $350.00

Written in collaboration with Sergeant Samuel Evans of the regiment, Dickey devotes enormous effort to refighting the battle of Seven Pines. His book contributes much to the history of that important battle. Though difficult to digest, the research is good and the arguments valid. The book also reprints a number of diaries and reminiscences of veterans. Also a valuable resource on prison life and operations in North Carolina .

Light wear; light chipping of extremities; else very good with bright device on cover. Inscribed and Signed by Dickey.

	Price: $1,750.00

The classic memoir from “the common soldier side of the matter,” made even more famous by Ken Burns’ The Civil War, and VERY SCARCE (only 2000 copies) in this edition.

Rubbing & bump; light scuffing; soil; mottled & blistered boards; light foxing of exteriors; else very good.

Sam Watkins’great granddaughter, Ruth Hill Fulton McAllister, joined us in April 2008 to talk about the revised edition of this important book. Learn more here. You can watch the program here.

	Price: $850.00

A very good unit history, quite scarce in first edition, which covers Confederate operations in the Trans-Mississippi for which there are few resources. Blessington, a corporal on the staff of General Richard Scurry, adds many personal observations that contribute considerably to the value of the narrative.

Light foxing light mottling of boards; light chipping of extremities; else very good.

	Price: $1,200.00

A Civil War classic, and one of the best Confederate unit histories ever written. “The lasting value of this narrative lies in its simplicity, humorous exaggerations, and brutal frankness in describing the intricacies of army life and the horrors of war.” - James I. Robertson, Jr. Douglas Southall Freeman wrote that “there can be no true portrayal of the private soldier of that Army unless Casler is consulted.” Illustrated binding.

Light chipping of extremities; usual toning; else very good. Comes with 1951 reprint of the same (for reading). Presented in red clamshell box, with leather spine labels, which is lightly sunned. Quite scarce!

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From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

Diners, bellhops, and cabbies shouted out "Hiya, Harry!" whenever they recognized the former president, and, out for his daily constitutional on the streets of New York, Harry even stumbled into the sidewalk shot of the newly launched Today show. Along the way there are brief detours into relevant topics, such as the postwar American auto industry, McCarthyism, the development of the nation’s highway system, and the decline of Main Street America.

By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, readers will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America’s last citizen-president.

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Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. As an exemplary cavalry officer and heir to the command of the martyred J.E.B. Stuart after that dashing general’s death at Yellow Tavern, Hampton was the embodiment of Southern Hero.

Rod Andrew's critical biography demonstrates that Hampton 's life is essential to understanding his influence on and beyond the battlefield and his obsession with vindication for the South. Andrew's analysis sheds light on Hampton’s critical role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, U.S. senator, and Redeemer; his heroic image in the minds of white Southerners; and his positions and apparent contradictions on race and the role of African Americans in the New South. Andrew also shows that Hampton 's tragic past explains how he emerged in his own day as a larger-than-life symbol--of national reconciliation as well as Southern defiance.

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	Price: $125.00

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America’s sixteenth president.

Volume 1 covers Lincoln’s early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s.

In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln’s life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln’s private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all—his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North’s most valuable asset in winning the Civil War.

Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before. (Not included in FREE SHIPPING OFFER.)

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Charles Volney Dyer came to Chicago in 1835 as physician to the garrison at Fort Dearborn. Outraged at the assassination of abolitionist editor, Elijah Lovejoy, in Alton, Illinois, he rallied Chicogoans to form the Chicago chapter of the Anti-Slavery Society. With them, he operated the Illinois station of the Underground Railroad, freeing over 1000 slaves.

Tracing Dyer's activities from 1835 to 1865, Campbell sweeps in the many players and steps in the fight against slavery. Dyer established newspapers, including National Era, which first published Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Western Citizen, which became the FreeWest and later the Chicago Tribune. He founded anti-slavery political parties--the Liberty Party, the Free Soil Party and the Illinois Republican Party, which hosted the first Republican Convention in Chicago at which Dyer helped secure the nomination for Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln is rightfully immortalized as the Great Emancipator and this book clearly demonstrates that Chicago abolitionists played a significant role in pushing slavery down the road to its ultimate extinction.

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When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln pointed to the international laws and usages of war as the legal basis for his proclamation, asserting that the Constitution invested the president “with the law of war in time of war.”

It was unclear whether state and federal courts would agree. Through careful analysis Burrus M. Carnahan concludes that if the courts had decided that the proclamation was not justified, the result would have been the personal legal liability of thousands of Union officers to aggrieved slave owners. This argument offers further support to the notion that Lincoln’s delay in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was an exercise of political prudence, not a personal reluctance to free the slaves; he wrote a truly radical document that treated them as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property.

“No other great presidential document has been so ignorantly maligned as Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The more we learn, through Carnahan, of the nineteenth century’s ‘laws of war’ and Lincoln’s radical prudence in interpreting them, the greater Lincoln stands as a presidential commander-in-chief and an emancipator.” --- Allen C. Guelzo.

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From Cooperstown and its surrounding region, upstate New Yorkers responded to President Lincoln’s call to service by volunteering in droves to defend an imperiled Union. Drawn from the farms and towns of Otsego and Herkimer counties, the 121st New York State Volunteer Infantry Regiment served with the VI Corps in the Army of the Potomac throughout the Civil War. In the first comprehensive history of the regiment in nearly ninety years, Salvatore Cilella chronicles the epic story of this heroic “band of brothers.”

Led for much of the war by the legendary Emory Upton, the 121st deployed nearly 1,900 men into battle, participated in 25 major engagements, from Antietam to Sailor’s Creek, won six Medals of Honor, took several battle flags, and led the charge at Spotsylvania. Cilella now tells their story, viewing the war through upstate New Yorkers’ eyes not only to depict three grueling years of fighting but also to reveal their distinctive attitudes regarding slavery, war goals, politics, and the families they left behind. Cilella mines primary sources from more than 120 soldiers to weave a compelling narrative that traces the 121st from enlistment through the horrors of battle and back to civilian life. Their words vividly recount the experience of combat, but also rail against Washington bureaucrats and commanding generals. Many were upset with those who suggested that Emancipation was the war’s primary cause, declaring their fight to be for the Union rather than freed slaves, but they also scorned any Northerners who sympathized with the South.

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Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career. Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience—from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed mother; through the horror of Vietnam where he was wounded; the post-war rebuilding of national security and the struggles surrounding the new world order after the Cold War—as a springboard to reveal his vision for America, at home and in the world. General Clark will address issues such as foreign policy, the economy, the environment, education and health care, family, faith, and the American dream. Rich with breathtaking battle scenes, poignant personal anecdote and eye-opening recommendations on the best way forward, General Clark's new book is a tour de force of gripping storytelling and inspiring vision.

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Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American history, but the woman at the center of his life, his wife, Mary, has remained a historical enigma. In this definitive, magisterial biography, Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln, and at a time when the nation was being tested as never before.

Mary Lincoln's story is inextricably tied with the story of America and with her husband's presidency, yet her life is an extraordinary chronicle on its own. Born into an aristocratic Kentucky family, she was an educated, well-connected Southern daughter, and when she married a Springfield lawyer she became a Northern wife—an experience mirrored by thousands of her countrywomen. The Lincolns endured many personal setbacks—including the death of a child and defeats in two U.S. Senate races—along the road to the White House. Mrs. Lincoln herself suffered scorching press attacks, but remained faithful to the Union and her wartime husband. She was also the first presidential wife known as the "First Lady," and it was in this role that she gained her lasting fame. The assassination of her husband haunted her for the rest of her life. Her disintegrating downward spiral resulted in a brief but traumatizing involuntary incarceration in an asylum and exile in Europe during her later years. One of the most tragic and mysterious of nineteenth-century figures, Mary Lincoln and her story symbolize the pain and loss of Civil War America.

Authoritative and utterly engrossing, Mrs. Lincoln is the long-awaited portrait of the woman who so richly contributed to Lincoln's life and legacy.

We have one first edition available with a signed bookplate. $50.00.

	Price: $35.00

In the spring of 1862, Federal troops under the command of General George B. McClellan launched what was to be a coordinated, two-pronged attack on Richmond in the hope of taking the Confederate capital and bringing a quick end to the Civil War. The Confederate high command tasked Stonewall Jackson with diverting critical Union resources from this drive, a mission Jackson fulfilled by repeatedly defeating much larger enemy forces. His victories elevated him to near iconic status in both the North and the South and signaled a long war ahead. One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the Valley Campaign has heretofore only been related from the Confederate point of view. With Shenandoah 1862, Peter Cozzens dramatically and conclusively corrects this shortcoming, giving equal attention to both Union and Confederate perspectives.

Based on a multitude of primary sources, Cozzens's groundbreaking work offers new interpretations of the campaign and the reasons for Jackson's success. Cozzens also demonstrates instances in which the mythology that has come to shroud the campaign has masked errors on Jackson's part. In addition, Shenandoah 1862 provides the first detailed appraisal of Union leadership in the Valley Campaign, with some surprising conclusions.

Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Cozzens presents the first balanced, comprehensive account of a campaign that has long been romanticized but never fully understood.

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The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived—and died—in it.

This taut, lushly illustrated biography—the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin—is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it."

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Gary Ecelbarger focuses on a very narrow, but crucial aspect of the Valley campaign. Like Peter Cozzens, Ecelbarger approaches his subject from the point of view of a modern military historian, writing with balance, analysis, and criticism that previous generations of Jackson writers were unwilling to provide. This work, rather than competing with Cozzens, provides an indispensible companion to Shenandoah 1862.

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	Price: $30.00

Marc Egnal takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles, and contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.

Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country’s westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a “clash of extremes.”

Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.

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In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for forty years. The trunk contained a rare find: twenty-five letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln's mental illness based on the lost letters, and the first new interpretation of the insanity case in twenty years. It details how Robert Todd Lincoln dealt with his mother's increasing irrationality and why it embarrassed his Victorian sensibilities; it explains the reasons he had his mother committed, his response to her suicide attempt, and her plot to murder him. It also shows why and how he ultimately agreed to her release from the asylum eight months early, and what their relationship was like until Mary's death.

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Julie Fenster offers the first-ever account of the suspenseful Anderson murder case, and Lincoln 's role in it.  Bestselling historian Julie M. Fenster not only examines a legal case that changed Lincoln 's fate, but portrays his day-to-day life as a circuit lawyer and how it shaped him as a politician. In a book that draws a picture of Lincoln in court and at home during that memorable season of 1856, Fenster also offers a close-up look at Lincoln 's political work, much of it masterful, some of it adventurous, in building the party that would change his fate – and that of the nation.

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	Price: $375.00

Winner of the Lincoln Prize and writtern by a Pulitzer Prize-winner.

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	Price: $39.95

Gettysburg was one of the most complex battles of the war. The Maps Gettysburg, by Bradley Gottfried offers a unique approach to the study of this multifaceted engagement. The book plows new ground in the study of the campaign by breaking down the entire campaign in 146 detailed full page original maps. These cartographic creations bore down to the regimental level, offering students of the campaign a unique and fascinating approach to studying what may have been the climactic battle of the war. There are also thirty-one “action-sections” comprising the entire campaign. These include the march to and from the battlefield and virtually every significant event in between. Keyed to each piece of cartography is detailed text about the units, personnel, movements, and combat (including quotes from eyewitnesses) that make the Gettysburg story come alive. This presentation allows readers to easily and quickly find a map and text on virtually any portion of the campaign. Serious students of the battle will appreciate the extensive endnotes and will want to take this book with them on their trips to the battlefield. Perfect for the easy chair or for stomping the hallowed ground of Gettysburg, The Maps of Gettysburg promises to be a seminal work that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious and casual student of the battle.

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	Price: $32.95

Drawing upon a wealth of sources, including dozens of previously unpublished or unused accounts, Herdegen details for the first time the exploits of the 2nd, 6th, 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana, and 24th Michigan regiments during the entire campaign. On July 1, the Western troops stood line-to-line and often face-to-face with their Confederate adversaries, who later referred to them as "those damned Black Hats." With the help of other stalwart comrades, the Hoosiers, Badgers, and Wolverines shed copious amounts of blood to save the Army of the Potomac's defensive position west of town. Their heroics above Willoughby Run, along the Chambersburg Pike, and at the Railroad Cut helped define the opposing lines for the rest of the battle and, perhaps, won the battle that helped preserve the Union.

Herdegen's account is much more than a battle study. The story of the fighting at the "Bloody Railroad Cut" is well known, but the attack and defense of McPherson's Ridge, the final stand at Seminary Ridge, the occupation of Culp's Hill, and the final pursuit of the Confederate Army has never been explored in sufficient depth or with such story telling ability. Herdegen completes the journey of the Black Hats with an account of the reconciliation at the 50th Anniversary Reunion and the Iron Brigade's place in Civil War history.

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A continuation of his important study of the importance of field fortifications during the Civil War. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of trench remnants at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania , North Anna, Cold Harbor , and Bermuda Hundred, Hess describes Union and Confederate earthworks and how Grant and Lee used them in this new era of field entrenchments. According to Hess, the heavy reliance on earthworks by both armies in the Overland campaign was driven by Grant's relentless attacks against Lee, not by the widespread use of rifle muskets, as historians have previously argued. Entrenchments kept the armies within striking distance and compelled soldiers to dig in for protection. Illustrated by rare, historic photographs and new detailed maps of the trench remnants, this book constitutes the second installment of a three-volume study of field fortifications in the eastern campaigns.

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Holzer provides a fine introduction to this beautiful catalog of the Indiana Historical Society's unparalleled collections of Lincoln imagery. In not other publication are these rare images reproduced so vividly.

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One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency -- there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war.

During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent.

Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.

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A study of the campaign for Forts Henry and Donelson, and how they influenced two of the most famous leaders of the Civil War. In early 1862, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant was barely clinging to his command of a Union army. Formally charged with chronic drunkenness, distrusted by his superiors, he had yet to win a major battle in the Civil War. At the same time Nathan Bedford Forrest, a novice lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the Confederate army was revealing a natural talent for fighting in his first campaigns. In February, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, Grant assailed the Confederate forts Henry and Donelson. Forrest found himself bottled up in a terrible siege, and subordinated to a quartet of criminally incompetent commanders. In the end “Unconditional Surrender” Grant was praised for his fierce prosecution of the campaign and quickly became a Union hero. The fiery Forrest refused to be surrendered and rode away from Fort Donelson with fifteen bullet marks on his coat and a budding reputation as America 's greatest cavalryman. Men of Fire is a riveting account of the making of two great military leaders, and two battles that transformed America.

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General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign is one of the most fascinating combined operations of the Civil War, yet it remains sadly neglected by historians. In Through the Howling Wilderness Gary Joiner shows how the U.S. Army-Navy expedition up the Red River ended in disaster and recrimination. He also shows how this backwater campaign affected the bigger picture of the Civil War far beyond what historians have heretofore been willing to admit. “This work will appeal across the spectrum of students and will be of equal benefit to the casual reader as well as the scholar.” Terrence J. Winschel, Historian, Vicksburg National Military Park.

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In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, an extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most beloved—and our most enigmatic—president in the years between his assassination and the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. A sequel to the enormously successful Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography, Looking for Lincoln picks up where the previous book left off, examining how our sixteenth president’s legend came into being.

Availing themselves of a vast collection of both published and never-before-seen materials, the authors—the fourth and fifth generations of a family of Lincoln scholars—bring into focus the posthumous portrait of Lincoln that took hold in the American imagination, becoming synonymous with the nation’s very understanding of itself. Told through the voices of those who knew the man—Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, neighbors and family members, adversaries and colleagues—and through stories carefully selected from long-forgotten newspapers, magazines, and family scrapbooks, Looking for Lincoln charts the dramatic epilogue to Lincoln’s extraordinary life when, in a process fraught with jealousy, greed, and the struggle for power, the scope of his historical significance was taking shape.

In vibrant and immediate detail, the authors chart the years when Americans struggled to understand their loss and rebuild their country. Here is a chronicle of the immediate aftermath of the assassination; the private memories of those closest to the slain president; the difficult period between 1876 and 1908, when a tired nation turned its back on the former slaves and betrayed Lincoln’s teachings; and the early years of the twentieth century when Lincoln’s popularity soared as African Americans fought to reclaim the ideals he espoused.

Looking for Lincoln will deeply enhance our understanding of the statesman and his legacy, at a moment when the timeless example of his leadership is more crucial than ever.

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It is a rare day when something novel is published about Abraham Lincoln’s life and works. Yet 20,000 volumes later, Mr. Lincoln’s Book is an unknown story.

As the Debates moved across Illinois, Lincoln saved the newspaper accounts of the contest, pasting these columns into a scrapbook. This scrapbook (perhaps two—as a New York newspaper hinted at in 1860) eventually became the Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 … It became a political tract used widely during the 1860 presidential campaign.

Lincoln, a popular politician was deeply thankful for the support of his friends, neighbors, and colleagues. He was pleased to sign or give copies of the book to his most active supporters. These became treasured mementoes to all who received them. The political best seller helped carry the dejected debater of 1858 to the Executive Mansion a mere two years later.

Here for the first time is a detailed narrative account of the book’s publication, focusing on Lincoln ’s personal involvement in the process. Leroy unites the full story line with original correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and photos and illustrations of the day.

 This is the first census of all known signed copies of the Debates which, under David Leroy, has grown to a total of 42 copies. The recipient’s role in Lincoln’s life is documented, as is the book’s provenance and present location.

Profusely illustrated with photos of many of the inscriptions, the book details the publishing history of a book Lincoln so ardently wished to see printed—perhaps his only claim to authorship of his own book.

Included is a CD containing other correspondence leading to the publication.

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America’s greatest president, who rose to power in the country’s greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation’s wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many times, but never by a man who himself sought the office of president and contemplated the awesome responsibilities that come with it.

George S. McGovern—a Midwesterner, former U.S. senator, presidential candidate, veteran, and historian by training—offers his unique insight into our sixteenth president. He shows how Lincoln sometimes went astray, particularly in his restrictions on civil liberties, but also how he adjusted his sights and transformed the Civil War from a political dispute to a moral crusade. McGovern’s account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.

This book is part of Holt's The American Presidents Series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Sean Wilentz.

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This is an impressive work bringing together the large but disparate literature on American Religion and the Civil War. Both Prayed to the Same God is the first book-length, comprehensive study of religion in the Civil War. While much research has focused on religion in a specific context of the civil war, this book provides a needed overview of this vital yet largely forgotten subject of American History. Writing passionately about the subject, Father Robert Miller presents this history in an accessible but scholarly fashion. Beginning with the religious undertones in the lead up to the war and concluding with consequences on religion in the aftermath, Father Miller not only shows us a forgotten aspect of history, but how our current historical situation is not unprecedented.

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Pryor’s remarkable and unique book was the best title produced on Lee during the Bicentennial celebration of his birth. Winner of the 2007 Lincoln Prize.

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Nearly 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln consistently ranks at or near the top of every poll of America's best, most admired, or most popular president ever.

During this bicentennial anniversary of his birth and for years after, Lincoln’s image will continuously be in the public spotlight. The U.S. Mint will issue four new Lincoln penny designs in 2009. A yearlong celebration has been organized and supported by the congressionally established Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. In the midst of all the excitement and commemoration debuts Fred Reed's outstanding new work, Abraham Lincoln: The Image of His Greatness. Beautifully illustrated in full color, with hundreds of private and public images, Reed's book explores the popular depiction of Lincoln as "ideal, idol, and icon." The martyred president is seen on coins, tokens, medals, postage stamps, and paper money - and also in oil paintings, magazine covers, popular advertisements, political cartoons, and other diverse media. Like Phil Kunhardt in Looking For Lincoln, Fred Reed understands the crucial role artifacts play in our memory and understanding of the 16th president.

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In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign - which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War - Gordon Rhea vividly re-creates the battle and maneuvers from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive. Every imaginable primary source has been exhausted to unravel the strategies, mistakes, gambles, and problems with subordinates that preoccupied two exquisitely matched minds.

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With this book Gordon Rhea burst on to the Civil War scene, pursuing an ambitious project to document the battles of Grant's Overland campaign as they had never been documented before. Although the battles at the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania had previously received one-volume treatments, the famous bloodbath ant Cold Harbor was understudied, and the important conflicts on the North Anna River had never been treated as a distinct battle. These massive battles are treated with the scholarship they require, and deserve, through Rhea's untiring research and analytical mind.

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In early May 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant initiated a drive through central Virginia to crush Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For forty days, the armies fought a grinding campaign from the Rapidan River to the James River that helped decide the course of the Civil War. Several of the war's bloodiest engagements occurred in this brief period: the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River , Totopotomoy Creek, Bethesda Church , and Cold Harbor . Rhea provides a rich, fast-paced narrative, movingly illustrated by more than sixty powerful color images from Heisey, who captures the many moods of these hallowed battlegrounds as they appear today. At once an engaging military history and a vivid pictorial journey, In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee offers a fresh vision of some of the country's most significant historic sites.

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With his third book, Rhea resumes his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Grant and Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 through 25th was critical in the clash between North and South. During those 13 days - an interlude bracketed by horrific battles that riveted the public's attention - a game of guile and endurance between Grant and Lee escalated into a suspenseful draw on Virginia 's North Anna River .

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Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago’s Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago’s 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in General Sherman’s XV Corps.

Swan’s sweeping history of this singular regiment and its pivotal role in the Western Theater of the Civil War draws heavily from primary documents and first-person observations, giving readers an intimate glimpse into the trials and triumphs of ethnic soldiers during the most deadly war in American history. Composed mainly of foreign-born recruits, the volunteers proved to be instrumental in various battles and sieges, including the marches to the sea and through the Carolinas, suffering great casualties and providing indispensable support for the Union. 

With a meticulous eye for accuracy, Swan traces the remarkable journey of these unique soldiers from their regiment’s inception and first military engagement in 1862 to their disbandment and participation in the Grand Review of General William T. Sherman’s army in 1865.

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Many in politics began their careers in the law; no one has cut such a distinguished path in this regard as Abraham Lincoln. Before his presidency, from 1836 to 1861, Lincoln practiced law in the courts of central Illinois. Part of an ambitious undertaking to collect and publish the surviving documentary record of Lincoln's life, this four-volume set addresses his quarter-century law career.

The cases represented paint a vivid picture of America in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The nation's surging expansion is reflected in cases over land speculation, property disputes, construction, and, of course, the railroads, whose interests are a consistent theme throughout. Other trials touch on domestic law, the Black Laws, even the California gold rush.

This collection will appeal to all scholars and students of the law and its history, as well as to anyone interested in antebellum America or presidential biography. No understanding of Lincoln is complete without a look at the great career in law that preceded his remarkable presidency.

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James Swanson debuted this best-selling account of Booth's flight, from his murder of President Lincoln to his death in the Garrett barn, on Virtual Book Signing on March 11, 2006.

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Through the immediacy of soldiers' letters and diaries written on the battlefield, in camps, and on deathbeds, Wiley Sword writes of the complexities in a soldier's mind when coming to grips with life and death in the time of the Civil War. Courage Under Fire includes the stories of soldiers--men like Illinois Lt. Col. Frank Curtiss, whose courage was revealed when he refused a useless charge into fortified Rebel lines.  Sword includes Confederate General Patrick Cleburne, one of the South's greatest military tacticians, who left diaries showing his mission to refine his methods to save lives while winning battles. Also closely examined is John Bell Hood's aggressive behavior at Franklin , where he tragically sacrificed much of his army. This action is assessed in terms of both moral and physical courage. Fletcher Pratt Award -winner Wiley Sword constructs a vivid picture of bravery under extreme stress.

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Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. Larry Tagg's The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln is the first study of its kind to concentrate on what Lincoln's contemporaries actually thought of him during his lifetime. Be forewarned: your preconceived notions are about to be shattered.

Torn by civil war, the era in which our sixteenth president lived and governed was the most rough-and-tumble in the history of American politics. The violence of the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line is simply startling. Indeed, the breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Mr. Lincoln was deeply reviled by many who knew him personally, and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him.

Of all the Lincoln books slated for publication, The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln will be the "must-read" title for general readers and scholars alike.

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The Civil War was the first "modern war." Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Abraham Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation.

An eager student of technology, Lincoln (the only president to hold a patent) had to learn to use the power of electronic messages. Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails tells a big story within a small compass. By paying close attention to Lincoln's "lightning messages," we see a great leader adapt to a new medium. No reader of this work of history will be able to miss the contemporary parallels. Watching Lincoln carefully word his messages—and follow up on those words with the right actions—offers a striking example for those who spend their days tapping out notes on computers and BlackBerrys. An elegant work of history, Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails is an instructive example of timeless leadership lessons.

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Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life.

Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address.

Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid to “think anew and act anew.”

A transcendent, sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our greatest president just as America commemorates the bicentennial of his birth. Signed on bookplate.

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“Both historians and general readers will welcome this treasury from one of the wisest and most original students of Abraham Lincoln and his times. This elegant and fascinating book confirms Frank Williams' important place in the firmament of Lincoln scholars and does a brilliant job of showing us why Lincoln 's ideals and methods of leadership are so necessary for Americans to understand almost a century and a half after his passing.” Michael Beschloss, presidential historian.

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Winner of the 2007 Lincoln Prize. A fascinating and illuminating study of the composition, content, and intent of Lincoln 's most important presidential writings. Profoundly influential at the time, Lincoln 's words continue to shape our understanding of American history. Wilson examines the circumstances that prompted Lincoln to compose each document (the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and his two inaugural addresses, among them), suggesting what Lincoln hoped to accomplish with them, and make clear—with the help of reproductions of the documents themselves—how very carefully Loln hinconed his words to achieve the greatest possible power of persuasiveness. Wilson shows us how, in the performance of his presidential duties, the pen was Lincoln 's mightiest sword.

Douglas Wilson is co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College; author, Lincoln Before Washington .

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