LEADER 03095nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910790178503321 005 20230721014711.0 010 $a1-280-69737-7 010 $a9786613674333 010 $a0-8093-8740-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000162077 035 $a(EBL)1354385 035 $a(OCoLC)856870322 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000644680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680214 035 $a(PQKB)11669837 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354385 035 $a(OCoLC)782950420 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19266 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555663 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL367433 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000162077 100 $a20060602d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAbraham Lincoln$b[electronic resource] $ethe observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay /$fedited by Michael Burlingame 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 300 $aExcerpts from: Abraham Lincoln : a history / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. 311 $a0-8093-2738-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-167) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Bio 330 $aIn 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 excerpts 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography$vAnecdotes 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865$vAnecdotes 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vAnecdotes 615 0$aPresidents 676 $a973.7092 701 $aBurlingame$b Michael$f1941-$01121565 701 $aHay$b John$f1838-1905.$0639332 701 $aNicolay$b John G$g(John George),$f1832-1901.$01543323 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790178503321 996 $aAbraham Lincoln$93796694 997 $aUNINA