The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera /

She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARB...

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Main Author: Tarbell, Ida M. 1857-1944
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Macmillan Company, 1917.
Edition:New ed.,
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Table of Contents:
  • v.2: The first inauguration of Lincoln; The relief of Fort Sumter; Seward's ambition to control the administration
  • The beginning of the Civil War
  • The failure of Fremont; Lincoln's first difficulties with McClellan; The death of Willie Lincoln
  • Lincoln and emancipatioin
  • Lincoln's search for a general
  • Lincoln and the soldiers
  • Lincoln's re-election in 1864
  • Lincoln's work in the winter of 1864-1865; His second inauguration
  • The end of the war
  • Lincoln's funeral.