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Lincoln's forgotten friend, Leonard Swett /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckley, Robert S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Friends and associates.
Swett, Leonard, > 1825-1889.
Lawyers > Illinois > Biography.
Bloomington (Ill.) > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A wandering youth
  • The road to Mount Pulaski
  • The great triumvirate of the Eighth Judicial Circuit
  • Politics overtakes the law
  • From the Wigwam to Washington
  • And the war came
  • Witness to the emancipation
  • Quicksilver and New Almaden
  • This terrible war
  • A strategic decision
  • Legal advocate and civic leader
  • The better angels of our nature.