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 Nine covers: Sherman's
campaign to the Chattahoochee the Cleveland convention the
Wade-Davis manifesto the last days of the rebel navy Horace
Greeley's peace mission Atlanta Sheridan in the Shenandoah Cedar
Creek Lincoln reelected 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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