Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham
Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his
administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest
upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private
secretaries to the president and first published in 1890, this
astonishingly in-depth work is still praised today for its clear,
easy-to-read style and vitality. This new replica edition features
all the original illustrations. Volume Eight covers: conspiracies
in the North habeas corpus Chickamauga Chattanooga Burnside in
Tennessee the Gettysburg address foreign relations in 1863 Grant
general-in-chief Spotsylvania and much more. American journalist
and statesman JOHN MILTON HAY (1838-1905) was only 22 when he
became a private secretary to Lincoln. A former member of the
Providence literary circle when he attended Brown University in the
late 1850s, he may have been the real author of Lincoln's famous
"Letter to Mrs. Bixby." After Lincoln's death, Hay later served as
editor of the *New York Tribune* and as U.S. ambassador to the
United Kingdom under President William McKinley. American author
JOHN GEORGE NICOLAY (1832-1901) was born in Germany and emigrated
to the U.S. as a child. Before serving as Lincoln's private
secretary, he worked as a newspaper editor and later as assistant
to the secretary of state of Illinois. He also wrote *Campaigns of
the Civil War* (1881).
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