366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president /
Three hundred and sixty-six days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
Stephen A. Wynalda.
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.
- xxvii, 590 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
"A Herman Graf book."
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Chronology.
Whitman College--Memorial bookplates--Class of 1937.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Chronology.