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Boritt, Gabor S.
Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream
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Boyden, Anna L.
Echoes from Hospital and White House: A Record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy’s Experience in War-Times.
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Brodie, Fawn M.
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Browne, Frances Fisher.
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Bruce, Robert V.
Lincoln and the Tools of War
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Buell, Thomas B.
The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War.
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Burkhimer, Michael.
100 Essential Lincoln Books.
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Burlingame, Michael.
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Carman, Harry J., and Reinhard H. Luthin.
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Carpenter, F. B.
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Chadwick, Bruce.
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Chamberlin, Thomas.
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Chandler, David G.
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London: Arms & Armour Press, 1980.
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865.
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The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
8 volumes (plus Index). Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861–1865.
2 volumes. Edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Coopersmith, Andrew S.
Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War.
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Cowley, Robert, ed.
With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War.
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Cox, Hank.
Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862.
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Craighill, William P.
The Army Officer’s Pocket Companion.
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Crete and James: Personal Letters of Lucretia and James Garfield.
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Crook, David P.
Diplomacy During the American Civil War.
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The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861–1865.
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Cuomo, Mario, and Harold Holzer.
Lincoln on Democracy: His Own Words, with Essays by America’s Foremost Historians.
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Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton.
Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral United States Navy.
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Dalrymple, William.
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857.
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Daniel, John M.
The Richmond Examiner During the War.
New York: Arno & The New York Times, 1970.
Daniel, Larry J.
Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War.
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Davis, David Brion.
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
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Davis, Jefferson.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
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Denney, Robert E.
The Civil War Years: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Life of a Nation.
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The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866.
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Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson.
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Dicey, Edward.
Spectator of America.
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Dix, Morgan. “Memorial Sermon.” In
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Donald, David Herbert, ed.
Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase
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Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln’s Family Life.
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Lincoln’s Herndon: A Biography.
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“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
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Why the North Won the Civil War.
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D’Orléans, François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie (“Prince du Joinville”).
The Army of the Potomac: Its Organization, Its Commander, and Its Campaign.
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Duke, Basil Wilson.
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1862 Manual for Army Cooking, a Reproduction with Essay by Elizabeth Stroud Kory.
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Eisenhower, John S. D.
Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883.
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden.
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Fehrenbacher, Don C.
Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962.
Fenster, Julie M.
The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President.
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Fermer, Douglas.
James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era, 1854–1867.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Fessenden, Francis.
The Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden.
2 volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907.
Fleischner, Jennifer.
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave.
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Flood, Charles Bracelen.
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History.
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
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Foote, Shelby.
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Foreman, Amanda.
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation.
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Furgurson, Ernest B.
Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War.
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