The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilySt. Martin's Publishing Group, 17 сент. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 304 From the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... Southern states that had formally abandoned the Union. Eight other states were considering secession. It was virtually certain that the loyal, Northern half of the nation would militarily challenge these secessions. After assuming the ...
... supplemented by a small but steady stream of cashcarrying sightseers who came to look at the building in which Congress made the nation's laws and the palace in which their president resided. It was, unmistakably, a Southern town, one that.
... Southern town, one that shut down when the afternoon sun got too hot, or—for a considerably longer period—when the Congress was in recess. Most notably, it was a slave city, sandwiched between the slave states of Maryland and Virginia ...
... Southern had ominously closed up their big houses, padlocked the doors, and moved south to await what they hoped might soon be a Washington that was capital of a new, Southern nation. But, formally at least, the Executive Mansion—as it ...
... Southern legislatures had already declared that their states were no longer part of the United States, all making clear that they would go to war with the federal government to sustain their decisions. Lincoln's immediate crisis had ...
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THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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