03127nam 2200625 a 450 991046221120332120200520144314.01-280-69737-797866136743330-8093-8740-9(CKB)2670000000162077(EBL)1354385(OCoLC)856870322(SSID)ssj0000644680(PQKBManifestationID)11386730(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644680(PQKBWorkID)10680214(PQKB)11669837(MiAaPQ)EBC1354385(OCoLC)782950420(MdBmJHUP)muse19266(Au-PeEL)EBL1354385(CaPaEBR)ebr10555663(CaONFJC)MIL367433(EXLCZ)99267000000016207720060602d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAbraham Lincoln[electronic resource] the observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay /edited by Michael BurlingameCarbondale Southern Illinois University Pressc20071 online resource (188 p.)Excerpts from: Abraham Lincoln : a history / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.0-8093-2738-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-167) and index.Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Election Day 1860 and Cabinet Making; 2. The Fort Sumter Crisis: March-April 1861; 3. Distributing Patronage: 1861; 4. Frontier Guards at the White House: April 1861; 5. Washington Besieged: April 1861; 6. The First Battle of Bull Run: July 21, 1861; 7. Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; 8. Lincoln and General George B. McClellan; 9. Removal of McClellan from Command: November 1862; 10. Cabinet Crisis: December 1862; 11. Lincoln's Fame; Notes; Index; Author BioIn 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is more a recounting of the Civil War era than a study of Lincoln's life. Editor Michael Burlingame sifted through the original forty-seven-hundred-page work and selected only the personal observations of the secretaries during the Lincoln presidency, placing ten excerptsPresidentsUnited StatesBiographyAnecdotesUnited StatesPolitics and government1861-1865AnecdotesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865AnecdotesElectronic books.Presidents973.7092Burlingame Michael1941-859385Hay John1838-1905.639332Nicolay John G(John George),1832-1901.904688MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462211203321Abraham Lincoln2023043UNINA