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  • Civil War Book Review: The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War

    The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War by William Marvel Product Details Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (June 22, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 061899064X ISBN-13: 978-0618990641 Not one of his good books William Marvel is a respected historian, an excellent author who has produced some very good books.  […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Partnership between a President and His General

    Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Partnership between a President and His General by John C. Waugh Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English ISBN-10: 0230613497 ISBN-13: 978-0230613492 Doing a book on Lincoln and McClellan is akin to running naked through a minefield.  On one side, is a beloved President universally acclaimed and […]

  • What Did Mr. Lincoln Know? (Conclusion)

    I several previous posts I looked at President Lincoln’s relationship to the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid to get some idea of his culpability in the assassination attempt on Jefferson Davis and the Confederate leadership. In the first, I looked at the military and political situation in the winter of 1863-64, how Lincoln’s hopes of ending the war […]

  • Short Takes

    Will Ronald Reagan replace US Grant on the fifty dollar bill? A US Representative right here in NC, Patrick McHenry, thinks so: “Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said in a written statement. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s time to honor the last great president of the 20th and give President Reagan […]

  • Lincoln and Stanton

    Two men could not have been more different than Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton. Lincoln had a broad vision, a humane disposition and a folksy way of expressing himself. He could be flexible, was not terribly good at particulars, and could ignore a personal insult if it advanced his cause. Stanton, OTOH was a master […]

  • 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address

    I received an email from Timothy Wroten of The New-York Historical Society concerning the upcoming museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln’s famous 1860 Cooper Union speech.  In his speech, Lincoln covered the topic of slavery and how to deal with that issue in new territories, the characterization of the Republican party as a “sectional” rather than […]

  • “A House Divided”

    Scott Johnson of Powerline blog has a post commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln today. He quotes Lincoln’s famous 1858 “house divided” speech, calling it “one of the most incendiary speeches in American history;” one that propelled the prairie lawyer to the White House. Maybe so (it was perceived differently at the time), but it […]