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from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg
making the authenticity and reliability of his work problematic
Americans' participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead
and afterward was bottled up in the siege of Vicksburg
Hardcover: 640 pages
Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (Herman Beltz - LP) battlefield from First Manassas/Bull Run toAbraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era His striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death. To