1865 : America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln's Final Year.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
Cover -- Jacket flaps -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- 1. The Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg -- 2. Grant and Lincoln: Partnership for Victory / John F. Marszalek and Michael B. Ballard -- 3. Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Conference / Richard Striner -- 4. Abraham Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- 5. Lincoln's Greatest Escapade: Walking through Richmond on April 4, 1865 / Richard Wightman Fox -- 6. Why Was Lincoln Murdered? / Edward Steers, Jr. -- 7. Military Justice, Right or Wrong: Judging the Lincoln Conspirators / Frank J. Williams -- 8. Allies or Adversaries? Lincoln, Douglass, and Black Suffrage / Edna Greene Medford -- 9. From Living Hero to Martyred Icon: The Evolution of the Lincoln Image in 1865 / Harold Holzer -- Appendix A: Lincoln's Final Months (January 1-April 15, 1865) -- Appendix B: Chronology for 1865 -- Appendix C: Lecture at the Inauguration of the Douglass Institute, by Frederick Douglass -- Appendix D: Letter to Francis Bicknell Carpenter from Mary Todd Lincoln, November 15, 1865 -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Lincoln, Abraham,-1809-1865-Influence. United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865. United States-Politics and government-1861-1865.