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The book Lincoln and His Admirals Begins with a gripping account of the attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter--a comedy of errors that shows all too clearly the fledgling president's inexperience--Symon
Bicentennial can really be a big deal especially if they are for remembering important things or persons. Lincoln's bicentennial certainly falls under this category and on A Lincoln Blog I've read abo
Just finished reading an article in the Volume 7, Number 1 issue of North & South magazine titled 'Abraham Lincoln: Savior or Tyrant'.
Very interesting article pitting Thomas DiLorenzo against Georg
...gest plausible ways in which the Civil War might have been avoided or averted. No fair killing off Abraham Lincoln prior to 1865. I am looking for policies and doctrines that are politically feasible ...
...s in the South get reined in by the more reasonable voices and decide to endure one Term (Four Years) with Lincoln as President then get their doo doo together and vote him out in the next election. T...
...o-Unionist and said that the slave states should fight for their position from within the Union. President Lincoln agreed to put him on his ticket for the election of 1864 because he accepted Emancipa...
Lincoln had nothing to do with Fort Sumpter. He was only reacting to that action with an appropriate reaction. If he was such a monster How could he give Lee et. al. such lenient terms of surrender af
...re than 2 hours, but not by much.)
Plus DC itself has a number of ACW-related sites: Ford's Theater, the Lincoln Memorial, etc. And most of the Metro stops are named after ACW figures, as pretty muc...
...s men into such an obvious bottleneck when to do otherwise was a viable option?
After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish...
Bruce Catton, 'The Coming Fury'(Pocketbooks edition), p400, Ch. 6:6
In discussing Butler's decision to deem fugitive slaves 'contraband' Catton writes:
'Congress, very significantly, had recently
... an hour's time. I guess the blame both of these strategies could be mitigated somewhat in Grant's case by Lincoln's insistance that he attack at every opportunity & Hood's addiction to Laudinum (an o...
... that are being rediscovered. Interesting thread indeed. Yankee Greetings, Carl
After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish...
...e (beginning) of the Civil War. I believe I've read, although I'm not sure where and I can't find it, that Lincoln was left off the ballot for the election of 1860 in most, if not all, southern states...
... property worth the hatred (and resistance to reconstruction) it generated? This puzzles me a little since Lincoln, for all he is vilified in some circles, seemed to understand fair treatment of your ...
None of which are important. Davis didn't care much about Lincoln's motives for the EP. It's probable that he shared the view of most slaveocrats that Lincoln was an Abolitionist fanatic. Nor did he m
...ve 'Now He Belongs To The Angels'.... Secretary of war Stanton's origional quote on the death of President Lincoln (the next day he changed it to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lanc...
...ve 'Now He Belongs To The Angels'.... Secretary of war Stanton's origional quote on the death of President Lincoln (the next day he changed it to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lanc...
It is reported that Robert Lincoln spent most of the civil war ensconsed in the halls and dormitories of Harvard University.
How did Father Abraham answer those who criticized his sons absence from
...territorial location.
I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I think this view is (and was - Lincoln pushed it at times) a serious mistake.
To begin with - in the musket/rifle era (170...
When President-elect Abraham Lincoln was travelling to Washington in 1861, Allen Pinkerton came to him with a lurid warning.
According to Pinkerton, there was a secret society of violent secessionis
...t McClellan would have DONE something with the entire AOP had he had it. Remember, this is the guy of whom Lincoln said 'If you are not going to use the army, I would like to borrow it.' and once gazi...
Hi, Ya'll,
Did Lincoln ever make any public statements that refuted or backed away from colonization of blacks?
Was supporting voting rights for black soldiers a back door way of refuting coloniza
...reclaim the District; and South Carolina's right to secede does not include the right to take Fort Sumter. Lincoln would have picked a fight anyway, one way or another, of course, by having the Union ...
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'Now He Belongs To The Angels'.... Secretary of war Stanton's origional quote on the death of President Lincoln (the next day he changed it to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lanc...
...ve 'Now He Belongs To The Angels'.... Secretary of war Stanton's origional quote on the death of President Lincoln (the next day he changed it to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lanc...
...f the UK/France while boosting Southern moral, if they happen to get lucky and hit the White House killing Lincoln in the process, all the better from their point of view.
(I've also posted this in ...
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This is a bit simplistic, IMO. An actual consideration of Lincoln's views on race would show him as someone whose views evolved as he came into contact with more blacks. At the time of the d
...to Washington nightly to keep Mosby from coming on one of his famous (or infamous) raids & abducting Pres. Lincoln as he had Gen. Stoughton at Fairfax Va. I'd be honored to hear comment via either my ...
I continually come across this quote on web sites
'Abe Lincoln when asked 'Why not let the South go in peace?' Lincoln replied: 'I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?' '
So far I'
On June 5, I posted the results of my research into the claim that Lincoln made out an arrest order (never served) for Justice Taney. (For those lacking the desire to read that post, I can say that I
...he war was no longer in doubt & Grant had only to harry Lee untill ultimate victory. True, his orders from Lincoln said to keep attacking until they give up, but at Cold Harbor he needlessy sent 6,000...
...who is sometimes credited with saving Grant's bacon at Shiloh. Despite that, he was relieved of command by Lincoln for what seemed to be political reasons and because he was not particularly loved by ...
I have got Volume one of Kenneth P. Williams: 'Lincoln finds a General.'. On Amazon I have not found any books called volume two, three or further one.
I found the book very interesting. I f anyone
...at They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War' by Mike Wright, Presidio Press, 1996.
Doesn't it seem like Lincoln was trying to absolve himself of any responsibility in starting and waging the Civil ...
OK, what would have happened during Lincoln's presidency if there had been no secession? Wouldn't the southern interests had an effective control of Congress with their Dem friends from the north? No
...int before making comments about a general's competence we may as well shut this ng down.
If Lee had had Lincoln as the president of the Confederacy he would have won the war before it started.
Le...
In his first inaugural address to the nation Lincoln pleaded to the South that it was his duty as President to preserve the Union,and warned it that the seceded states could not win a war on the battl
Although I have been reading the ACW in my retirement, I yet to broach a reading of Lincoln. What are a few available books worthy of the man?
...but the Union vicory at Antietam in September made him hesitate (tactical draw - strategic Union victory). Lincoln's subsequent Emancipation Proclamation put the last nail into the coffin of European ...
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Or that Lincoln's election posed some sort of threat to the South?
Regards, Dave Gorski
I am trying to find the original source of an A. Lincoln quote. The quote is:
'The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated stateme
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'Now He Belongs To The Angels'.... Secretary of war Stanton's origional quote on the death of President Lincoln (the next day he changed it to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lanc...
...ain title in return for $150,000.
On March 31, 1883, the Secretary of War (ironically he was Robert Todd Lincoln!) paid G. W. C. Lee $125,000, conveying the estate in fee simple. The remaining $25,0...
Does anyone know where I can find a copy of both his inaugural addresses? specifically the second?
...by consent. The federals answer that negro slavery was a terrible injustice. It has been demonstrated that Lincoln flagrantly and repeatedly violated the Constitution. The federals answer that negro s...
...ly conducted? What kind of ballots were used? How were they marked by voters? General histories state that Lincoln's name was 'not on the ballot' in Southern states. Does this mean every candidate was...
'In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editoria
...ery was as lawful in the United States as it was in the Confederate States. Moreover, the words of Abraham Lincoln himself, from his first inaugural, makes his indifference to slavery apodictically ce...
I got this in e-mail today. Don't think this is a matter for an historian, rather a math teacher.
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Have a history teacher explain this
...act is that the US started the war to gain something and ended it by agreeing to status quo ante bellum.
Lincoln went to war to restore the Union. If, after winning spectacular victories, he had agr...
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