Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
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xix, 743 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-693) and index.
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised the army of a million men who won the Civil War. He organized the war effort. He directed military movements from his telegraph office, where Lincoln literally hung out with him. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for war crimes, such as resisting the draft or calling for an armistice. Stanton was so controversial that some accused him at that time of complicity in Lincoln's assassination. He was a stubborn genius who was both reviled and revered in his time. Now with this worthy complement to the enduring library of biographical accounts of those who helped Lincoln preserve the Union, Stanton honors the indispensable partner of the sixteenth president. Walter Stahr's essential book is the first major biography of Stanton in fifty years, restoring this underexplored figure to his proper place in American history--,Provided by publisher.

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Stahr, W. (2017). Stanton: Lincoln's war secretary . Simon & Schuster.

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Stahr, Walter. 2017. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary. Simon & Schuster.

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Stahr, Walter. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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Stahr, Walter. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary Simon & Schuster, 2017.

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