Lincoln's war : the untold story of America's greatest president as commander in chief / Geoffrey Perret.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Random House, �2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 470 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0375507388
  • 9780375507380
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Lincoln's war.LOC classification:
  • E 457.2 .P47 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Follow me -- Let it come -- Three years or the war -- First martyr, first hero -- Short road to a long war -- The battle for public opinion -- Little Mac -- Manifestly astray -- Great Scott -- Bog of war -- Groping and hoping -- Western horizons -- Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds -- Two irons in the fire -- The meteor man -- Bloody and muddy -- Desperate measures -- D�ej�a vu carousel -- A chapter closes -- How low can you go? -- Sifting out the hearts of men -- Counsels of war -- The art of command -- North and South -- Man power -- Jailer visionary -- Westward, look! -- Fuglemen lost -- Man, thinking -- Boys in blue -- The first general -- Soldier, soldier -- Endgame -- The last tattoo.
Summary: An account of Abraham Lincoln's specific contributions to the Civil War discusses his creation of the role of the nation's commander in chief and his relationships with his military leaders, spies, and weapons pioneers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-452) and index.

Follow me -- Let it come -- Three years or the war -- First martyr, first hero -- Short road to a long war -- The battle for public opinion -- Little Mac -- Manifestly astray -- Great Scott -- Bog of war -- Groping and hoping -- Western horizons -- Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds -- Two irons in the fire -- The meteor man -- Bloody and muddy -- Desperate measures -- D�ej�a vu carousel -- A chapter closes -- How low can you go? -- Sifting out the hearts of men -- Counsels of war -- The art of command -- North and South -- Man power -- Jailer visionary -- Westward, look! -- Fuglemen lost -- Man, thinking -- Boys in blue -- The first general -- Soldier, soldier -- Endgame -- The last tattoo.

An account of Abraham Lincoln's specific contributions to the Civil War discusses his creation of the role of the nation's commander in chief and his relationships with his military leaders, spies, and weapons pioneers.

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