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Lincoln's war : the untold story of America's greatest president as commander in chief /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perret, Geoffrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Military leadership.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Executive power > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Follow me
  • Let it come
  • Three years or the war
  • First martyr, first hero
  • Short road to a long war
  • The battle for public opinion
  • Little Mac
  • Manifestly astray
  • Great Scott
  • Bog of war
  • Groping and hoping
  • Western horizons
  • Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds
  • Two irons in the fire
  • The meteor man
  • Bloody and muddy
  • Desperate measures
  • Déjà vu carousel
  • A chapter closes
  • How low can you go?
  • Sifting out the hearts of men
  • Counsels of war
  • The art of command
  • North and South
  • Man power
  • Jailer visionary
  • Westward, look!
  • Fuglemen lost
  • Man, thinking
  • Boys in blue - The first general
  • Soldier, soldier
  • Endgame
  • The last tattoo.