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Fanny Seward

Trudy Krisher
Fanny Seward Book PDF

Author : Trudy Krisher
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815652953

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Fanny Seward by Trudy Krisher Pdf

On April 14, 1865, the night of President Lincoln’s assassination, Booth’s conspirator Lewis Powell attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in his home just blocks from Ford’s Theatre. The attack, which left Seward and his son seriously wounded, is recounted in poignant detail in Fanny Seward’s diary. Fanny, the beloved only daughter of Seward, was a keen observer, and her diary entries from 1858 to 1866 are the foundation of Krisher’s vivid portrait of the young girl who was an eyewitness to one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Fanny offers intimate observations on the politicians, generals, and artists of the time. She tells of attending dinner parties, visiting troops, and going to the theater, often alongside President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary. Through Fanny’s writings, Krisher not only skillfully brings to life the events and activities of a progressive political family but also illuminates the day-to-day drama of the war. Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.

Seward

Walter Stahr
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Author : Walter Stahr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439121184

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Seward by Walter Stahr Pdf

Presents a profile of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals," examining the many political roles he had in his lifetime, including governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Lincoln's closest advisor during the Civil War.

Blood on the Moon

Edward Steers
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Author : Edward Steers
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0813191513

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Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers Pdf

Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416549833

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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes. Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades

Susannah Ural
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Author : Susannah Ural
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472806727

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Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades by Susannah Ural Pdf

Filled with diverse letters and diary entries from the archives and rich resources across America, Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades sheds new light on the military events, politics, and personal sacrifices experienced during the War Between the States. For four years American families on both sides of the Mason–Dixon Line were forced to endure the violence and hardship of the Civil War. This is the story of these families, expertly crafted from their own words. Revealing the innermost thoughts of both famous citizens and men and women forgotten by history, esteemed Civil War historian Susannah J. Ural explores life on the battlefield and the home front, capturing the astonishing perseverance of the men and women caught up in this most brutal of conflicts.

Wide Awake

Jon Grinspan
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Author : Jon Grinspan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639730650

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Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan Pdf

“A gifted writer.”-Eric Foner, The Nation A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year, the nation would be at war with itself, and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there. In this gripping narrative, Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan examines how exactly our nation crossed the threshold from a political campaign into a war. Perfect for readers of Lincoln on the Verge and TheField of Blood, Wide Awake bears witness to the power of protest, the fight for majority rule, and the defense of free speech. At its core, Wide Awake illuminates a question American democracy keeps posing, about the precarious relationship between violent speech and violent actions.

Beware the People Weeping

Thomas Reed Turner
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Author : Thomas Reed Turner
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807117226

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Beware the People Weeping by Thomas Reed Turner Pdf

The first killing of a president in American history, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shook the nation to its foundations with grief and rage. With one bullet the brief period of good feeling at the end of the Civil War was over. By 1867 the initial belief that the Confederate leadership had engineered the assassination had given way to speculation that Andrew Johnson had been behind the conspiracy. This was followed by bitter attacks on the military trial and on the defense of its two most prominent “victims,” Mrs. Surratt and Dr. Mudd. Most recently, there have been attempts to show that it was the radical faction of Lincoln’s own party that arranged his death. In Beware the People Weeping, Thomas Reed Turner pushes away the elaborate conspiracy theories that have always surrounded Lincoln’s death and uncovers exactly what can be known about the murder and its aftermath. Finding that many historians have worked in ignorance of the context of the events, or distorted the evidence to suit their own ideas about political assassination, Turner looks instead to public opinion of the time—as reflected in newspapers, diaries, letters, sermons, and transcripts of the pretrial investigation and the trial itself—to understand how and why the public and the military reacted as they did. Probing the aftermath of the assassination, Turner tells of the spontaneous outpouring of rage and despair, the reaction in the defeated South, the almost universal conviction that the South was behind the plot, the actions of the authorities in tracking the conspirators, and the trials of the suspects, including that of John Surratt in 1867. A close look at these confused events and an untangling of the controversies that arose in their wake, Beware the People Weeping strips away more than a century of speculation to retell with hard facts the history of Abraham Lincoln’s death.

Abraham Lincoln

Zofia Stone
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Author : Zofia Stone
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386834348

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Abraham Lincoln by Zofia Stone Pdf

Abraham Lincoln, an American politician and lawyer was the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. This book gives a brief account of his life, early career ro presidency and assassination.

The Virgin Vote

Jon Grinspan
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Author : Jon Grinspan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469627359

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The Virgin Vote by Jon Grinspan Pdf

There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their children to be "violent little partisans," while politicians lobbied twenty-one-year-olds for their "virgin votes"—the first ballot cast upon reaching adulthood. In schoolhouses, saloons, and squares, young men and women proved that democracy is social and politics is personal, earning their adulthood by participating in public life. Drawing on hundreds of diaries and letters of diverse young Americans--from barmaids to belles, sharecroppers to cowboys--this book explores how exuberant young people and scheming party bosses relied on each other from the 1840s to the turn of the twentieth century. It also explains why this era ended so dramatically and asks if aspects of that strange period might be useful today. In a vivid evocation of this formative but forgotten world, Jon Grinspan recalls a time when struggling young citizens found identity and maturity in democracy.

Bullets, Bugles & Cannonfire!

Kelly Chance Beckman
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Author : Kelly Chance Beckman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Irish Americans
ISBN : 9781257757633

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Bullets, Bugles & Cannonfire! by Kelly Chance Beckman Pdf

A fictionalized account of William Joseph Kelly of Sandusky, a volunteer for the Union Army during the Civil War. Written to demonstrate the impact of the war on a common soldier and the aftermath of the war, this novel includes actual and extensive historical documents, archives, research and the genealogy for the Kelly family of Ohio.

George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter

P.H. Carder
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Author : P.H. Carder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786483174

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George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter by P.H. Carder Pdf

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" became perhaps the most common patriotic song echoing throughout the North. The author of that famous tune was George F. Root, and his many other patriotic songs established him as "the musician of the people." This biography follows Root's dual career as a nationally-known traveling teacher and a composer of popular songs. His wartime songs expressed the emotions of the soldiers and of the people at home. His later songs document such events as the assassination of President Lincoln, the settling of the West, the literature and humor of his day, and the many reform movements that defined the values of that era. His biography reveals how he became the musician of the people and how his critics responded.

The House on H. Street

J. Weingrad Daniel J. Weingrad,Daniel J. Weingrad
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Author : J. Weingrad Daniel J. Weingrad,Daniel J. Weingrad
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440182754

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The House on H. Street by J. Weingrad Daniel J. Weingrad,Daniel J. Weingrad Pdf

Dr. Borin, a psychologist, travels in time to April 14th 1865 to be an invisible observer to the shattering events of Lincoln's assassination.

Avenging Lincoln’s Death

Thomas J. Reed
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Author : Thomas J. Reed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611478280

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Avenging Lincoln’s Death by Thomas J. Reed Pdf

Avenging Lincoln’s Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln. The book analyzes the trial transcript and other relevant evidence relating to the guilt of Booth’s alleged accomplices, as well as a careful application of basic constitutional law principles to the jurisdiction of the military commission and the fundamental fairness of the trial. The author found that the military commission trial was unconstitutional and unfair because Congress never authorized trial by military commission for these eight civilians. President Johnson exceeded the scope of his authority as commander in chief by ordering the accomplices to be tried by military commission. He failed to follow the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 that required him to turn over the alleged accomplices to civilian authorities for prosecution. The accomplices were convicted on perjured testimony and the Government was allowed to drag in unrelated evidence of Confederate atrocities to poison the minds of the panel of officers.

Lincoln's Bold Lion

James T. Huffstodt
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Author : James T. Huffstodt
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612003405

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Lincoln's Bold Lion by James T. Huffstodt Pdf

“[Does]an excellent job portraying General Hardin’s life in the context of a changing America . . . a definitive biography of a forgotten hero” (Civil War News). Nominated for the Gilder Lehrman Prize, this is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra Warner, “embarked upon a combat career which has few parallels in the annals of the army for gallantry, wounds sustained, and the obscurity into which he had lapsed a generation before his death.” From Hardin’s childhood in Illinois, where a slave girl implanted in him a fear of ghosts, to his attendance at West Point, along with other future luminaries, to his service on the frontier,where he took particular note of the bearing of the Cheyenne, Hardin’s life reveals the progress of a century. Made Brigadier General at age twenty-seven, Hardin fought with distinction at Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Grant’s Overland Campaign, and the July 1864 Rebel raid on Washington. He was wounded four times, nearly died on two occasions, and lost an arm during the war. On one occasion, he was ambushed on a road by Mosby’s Men, one of whom may have been Lincoln conspirator Lewis Paine. Hardin himself took part in the hunt for John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln’s assassination. Though General Hardin’s mother skillfully played upon her friendship with the President and the First Lady to advance her son’s career, his gallantry and leadership in combat sufficed to earn him renown. Lincoln’s Bold Lion “restores the man’s rightful position as an American hero” (Chicago Daily Herald).

Rebel Falls

Tim Wendel
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Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501774966

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Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel Pdf

With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The Civil War rages on. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, while the armies of Grant and Lee battle across Virginia. In the North, war-weariness has made Lincoln's bid for reelection seem doubtful. As the fate of the nation "conceived in Liberty" hangs in the balance, Confederate agents gather in Niagara Falls to plan one last audacious maneuver to turn the tide of the conflict. Rory Chase, a capable yet haunted young woman eager to contribute to the Union cause, accepts a mission from the Secretary of State, William Seward, to travel to Niagara Falls and prevent two rebel spies, John Yates Beall and Bennet Burley, from seizing the U.S.S. Michigan on Lake Erie and bombarding Buffalo, Cleveland, and other northern cities to sow fear and disorder ahead of the upcoming election. To succeed, Rory must gain the rebel spies' trust and, with the help of the Underground Railroad network still operating out of the elegant Cataract House hotel overlooking the Falls, foil their desperate gambit. But can she maintain the pretense of being a Confederate sympathizer long enough to unravel Beall and Burley's ingenious plot? With actual events underpinning the tumultuous story in Rebel Falls, a forgotten chapter in the history of the Civil War is revealed. Far from frontlines, Wendel's exciting, character-driven narrative about a consequential struggle in the shadow of Niagara Falls' dramatic beauty is gripping from start to finish.