Perret, Geoffrey. <br/><br/>
Lincoln's war :  the untold story of America's greatest president as commander in chief / 
Geoffrey Perret. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Random House,  �2004. 
 - xv, 470 pages, [16] pages of plates :  illustrations, maps, portraits ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-452) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375507388 9780375507380 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003058703 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Military leadership.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 <br/>Lincoln, Abraham.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>American Civil War (1861-1865) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800 - 1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Executive power--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Executive power.<br/>Military leadership.<br/>Political science.<br/>Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.<br/>Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865)<br/>Milit�arischer F�uhrer.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biography.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 457.2 .P47 2004