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Lincoln : an illustrated life and legacy / Thomas F. Schwartz.

by Schwartz, Thomas F.

New York, NY : Fall River Press, c2009.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Sources.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Pictorial works.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.

61 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm. + 15 facsims.

Lincoln's ancestors -- Lincoln's childhood -- Lincoln the young man -- Political stirrings -- Family life -- Lincoln the lawyer -- Congressman Lincoln -- The crisis of the 1850s -- The birth of the Republican Party -- Debates -- the 1860 election -- From secession to Fort Sumter -- The first years of the Civil War -- Life in the White House -- Republican Congress -- The war and slavery -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Lincoln's faith -- The Civil War -- The Gettysburg Address -- The Civil War on the home front -- The election of 1864 -- The rise and fall of the Confederacy -- Richmond falls -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Lincoln and reconstruction -- Sic Semper Tyrannus -- Lincoln's last hours and funeral -- Lincoln's legacy.

Traces Lincoln's life, from his humble beginnings to his first tentative steps into politics and his ground-breaking Emancipation Proclamation, and shows how his leadership allowed the Union to win the Civil War.

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