CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs and Documents of the Civil War Era

by Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman

This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most important military commanders of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, complete with biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Finally, this collection is enriched with pivotal historical documents which provide an explicit insight into this decisive period of the American past. History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leaders & Commanders of the Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant William T. Sherman Leaders & Commanders of the Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Civil War The Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Presidential Actions and Addresses by Abraham 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865

Genres: History, Nonfiction

4744 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 20, 2017

About the author

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861 and led the country during the Civil War.

Lincoln, a moderate, navigated a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from the Democratic Party and Republican Party. He exploited mutual enmity of the factions, carefully distributing political patronage, and appealed to the American people.

Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared free all enslaved persons in states "in rebellion against the United States." It also directed the Navy to "recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons" and to receive them "into the armed service." Lincoln promoted the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.

Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign and sought to heal the war-torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he attended a play at theater of Ford in Washington, District of Columbia, with Mary Todd Lincoln, his wife, when Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Boothe fatally assassinated him.

Lincoln is remembered as a martyr and a national hero for for his efforts to preserve the union and abolish slavery. Popular and scholarly polls often rank Lincoln as the greatest president in American history.

Reviews

[George Polansky · Rating 5 out of 5]

A readable history. Covers the war more from a social and biographical view than as a military history.

[Gwen Hight · Rating 4 out of 5]

CIVIL WAR--Complete History of the War Documents Memoirs& Biographies

The is is a story of the completion of the civil war with all documents and the disagreements and agreements made by the Congress and Senate and President Lincoln

[Ian A · Rating 5 out of 5]

Voices from History

I always think that you cannot beat source material presented without the filter of other’s opinion and this book delivers that material in droves. Highly recommended.