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Lincoln's Hundred Days : the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the Union
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Assesses President Lincoln's leadership in the one hundred days preceding the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a period characterized by mounting deaths on the battlefield and heated natio...
Assesses President Lincoln's leadership in the one hundred days preceding the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a period characterized by mounting deaths on the battlefield and heated national debates.
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- Creator
- Louis P. Masur
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012
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- viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674067533, 9780674071339, 9780674066908, 0674066901, 0674071336, 9780674067530
- OCLC
- ocn840444562, ocn781278941, ocn810931676
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue, September 22, 1862: Lincoln Tells a Story -- The path to the preliminary proclamation -- Toward Emancipation -- Messages and Measures -- A New Departure -- Movement -- One hundred days -- Judgments -- The Reactions of Scholars and Soldiers -- Intervention and Election Fever -- "We Cannot Escape History" -- Standing Firm -- The proclamation and beyond-- Jubilee -- "Men of Color, To Arms!" -- "It Can Not Be Retracted" -- Emancipation Triumphant -- Epilogue, April 4, 1865: Lincoln Visits Richmond