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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... federal government over “states' rights” headed the South's list of grievances, the specific issue of slavery had counted above all else in the just concluded election. Slavery indeed oven/vhelmed every other public concern in America ...
... federal army's commanding general, warned his men—most were members of the District of Columbia cavalry—to “watch the windows of the opposite side” and fire on anyone who looked to be pointing anything at the presidential carriage. In ...
... federal district. The Tiber Creek, formerly and less grandly named Goose Creek, emptied into the Potomac just below the White House; the canalized part of the stream flowed along what would one day become the Mall, crossed in front of ...
... federal government; strewn between them were a few statues and the stub of the unfinished Washington Monument, squatting in the muck of the long and messy field—now the Mall—that spilled down the slope of Jenkins Hill from the Capitol ...
... federal government to sustain their decisions. Lincoln's immediate crisis had condensed to a single flashpoint, a standoff between federal authority and the new union of Southern states that called itself a confederacy. At the ...
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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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