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This intriguing book examines Lincoln's assassination from a
behavioral and medical sciences perspective, providing new insights
into everything from ballistics and forensics to the medical
intervention to save his life, the autopsy results, his compromised
embalming, and the final odyssey of his bodily remains. In this
book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating
details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John
Wilkes Booth's illness that turned him into an assassin, the
medical treatment the president is alleged to have received after
he was shot, and the significance of his funeral for the American
public. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the science
behind the assassination, a discussion of the medical care Lincoln
received at the time he was shot and the treatment he would have
received if he were shot today, and the impact of his death on his
contemporaries and the American public. The book examines Lincoln's
fatalism and his unbridled ambition in terms of empirical
psychological science rather than the fanciful psychoanalytical
explanations that often characterize Lincoln psychohistories. The
medical chapters challenge the long-standing description of
Lincoln's last hours and examine the debate about whether Lincoln's
doctors inadvertently doomed him. Challenges the long-standing
account of Lincoln's last hours and examines the debate about
whether his doctor prolonged or shortened his life Sheds light on
the crime with an in-depth analysis of ballistics and detailed
forensics information Features a new interpretation of why Booth
shot Lincoln
WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE "A Lincoln
classic...superb." -The Washington Post "A book for our
time."-Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic
story of America's greatest president discovering his own strength
to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest
crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for
Washington and his inauguration-an inauguration Southerners have
vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal
thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks
directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on
new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as
a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he
foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the
American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to
take his oath of office.
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek marked the beginning of the end for
the Confederacy, for it turned the page from the patient defence
displayed by General Joseph E. Johnston to the bold offense called
upon by his replacement, General John Bell Hood. Until this point
in the campaign, the Confederates had fought primarily in the
defensive from behind earthworks, forcing Federal commander William
T. Sherman to either assault fortified lines, or go around them in
flanking moves. At Peach Tree Creek, the roles would be reversed
for the first time, as Southerners charged Yankee lines. The Gate
City, as Atlanta has been called, was in many ways the capstone to
the Confederacy's growing military-industrial complex and was the
transportation hub of the fledgling nation. For the South it had to
be held. For the North it had to be taken. With General Johnston
removed for failing to parry the Yankee thrust into Georgia, the
fate of Atlanta and the Confederacy now rested on the shoulders of
thirty-three-year-old Hood, whose body had been torn by the war.
Peach Tree Creek was the first of three battles in eight days in
which Hood led the Confederate Army to desperate, but unsuccessful,
attempts to repel the Federals encircling Atlanta. This particular
battle started the South on a downward spiral from which she would
never recover. After Peach Tree Creek and its companion battles for
Atlanta, the clear-hearing Southerner could hear the death throes
of the Confederacy. It was the first nail in the coffin of Atlanta
and Dixie.
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Shot and Shell
- the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Camps, Forts, Batteries, Garrisons, Marches, Shirmished, Sieges, Battles, and Victories; Also, the Roll of Honor and Roll of the Regiment..
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Frederic 1819-1901 Denison
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Popular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from
high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among
the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856
was the display of a "Wild Woman," purportedly a young woman
captured while living a feral life beyond the frontier. The popular
exhibit, which featured a silent, underdressed woman chained to a
bed, was almost assuredly a hoax. Local activist women, however,
used their influence to prompt a judge to investigate the display.
The court employed eleven doctors, who forcibly subdued and
examined the woman before advising that she be admitted to an
insane asylum. In his riveting analysis of this remarkable episode
in antebellum American history, Michael D. Pierson describes how
people in different political parties and sections of the country
reacted to the exhibit. Specifically, he uses the lens of the Wild
Woman display to explore the growing cultural divisions between the
North and the South in 1856, especially the differing gender
ideologies of the northern Republican Party and the more southern
focused Democrats. In addition, Pierson shows how the treatment of
the Wild Woman of Cincinnati prompted an increasing demand for
women's political and social empowerment at a time when the country
allowed for the display of a captive female without evidence that
she had granted consent.
Sounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial
epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and
precipitating the Civil War. In this enlightening book, readers
live through the Gold Rush, the Mexican War, the skirmishes of
Bleeding Kansas, and the emergence of Abraham Lincoln, as well as
the tragic issue of slavery.
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