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- 366 days in Abraham Lincoln's…
- Other Title:
- Three hundred and sixty-six days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency
- Authors:
- Wynalda, Stephen A.
- Item ID:
- 71200908404240
- Publisher:
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.
- ISBN:
- 9781602399945 :; 1602399948
- Call Number:
- E457.45 .W96 2010
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 590 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Topic:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Chronology.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Chronology.
- Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-571) and index.; Journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office--including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln's private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, "The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels"-- From publisher description.; "A Herman Graf book"--T.p.
- OCLC Number:
- ocn436866985
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Category:
- Books & Pamphlets