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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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An associate of Abraham Lincoln offers an intimate view of the
president's relations with military men and top politicians,
placing particular emphasis on the election campaigns of 1860 and
1864.A. K. McClure, a Republican powerbroker and later editor of
the Philadelphia Times, reveals how Lincoln replaced Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin with the southern Democrat Andrew Johnson on the
1864 ticket. According to McClure, Lincoln kept his hand hidden in
order not to offend Hamlin and his New England supporters. In 1892,
the publication of Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times caused an
angry exchange of letters (included in this edition) between
McClure and the late president's secretary, John G. Nicolay.For all
his nobility, Lincoln was a shrewd and cautious politician, running
scared for reelection until major Union army victories in September
1864. McClure writes candidly about William T. Sherman, Ulysses S.
Grant, and George B. McClellan. Among the politicians discussed are
Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan, who fixed the Southern
policy that Lincoln followed until war came; Salmon P. Chase, the
annoyingly ambitious secretary of the treasury; Edwin M. Stanton,
the moody secretary of war; and Thaddeus Stevens, the ferocious
congressman whose relations with Lincoln were uneasy at best.James
A. Rawley is Carl Adolph Happold Professor Emeritus of history at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of Turning Points of
the Civil War, also available as a Bison Book.
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