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Fourth volume in a multivolume work considered to be useful to Lincoln scholars. Completed by Richard N Current using the notes and drafts Randall left at his death, this book describes the key events of Lincoln's administration from December 1863 to April 1865. It is a Bancroft Prize-winning history of Lincoln's last year in office.
Gathers essays about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, President Grant, the Reconstruction, carpetbaggers, and historical novels.
"Abraham Lincoln as politician, president, and human being comes to life in all the conflicts, paradoxes, and seeming contradictions that surround him. Packed with fascinating details, The Lincoln Nobody Knows is a study of the obscure and misunderstood facets of the great statesman's career and private life."--Back cover
With this path-breaking book, Richard Nelson Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The ranks of the Union forces swelled by more than 100,000 of these men known to their friends as "loyalists" and to their enemies as "tories". They substantially strengthened the Union, weakened the Confederacy, and affected the outcome of the Civil War. Despite the assertions of southern governors that Lincoln would get no troops from the South to preserve the Union, every Confederate state except South Carolina provided at least a battalion of white troops for the Union Army. The role of black soldiers (inclu...