Lincoln First Tower
Author | : Lincoln First Bank of Rochester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1973* |
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Author | : Lincoln First Bank of Rochester |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1973* |
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Author | : William Bruce Johnson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811769364 |
Lincoln’s First Crisis concerns five of the most consequential months in American history: December 1860 through April 1861. When Abraham Lincoln swore his oath as president, the United States was disintegrating. Seven states had seceded, and as many as eight seemed poised to join them, depending upon how the new president handled the secession crisis and its flashpoint: Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the heart of the rebellion. The fate of the republic hung in the balance. The Sumter crisis has been hotly debated and deeply researched for more than 150 years. In this thoughtful reassessment, William Bruce Johnson combines thorough research and the latest historiography with a litigator’s methodical analysis and a storyteller’s eye for meaningful detail. Shortly after taking office, Lincoln decided upon a plan to avoid war with the seceded states while keeping his inaugural promise to maintain a Union military presence in the South. Because he chose not to reveal his plan to anyone, rumors soon spread that he was simply afraid to act. One source of such rumors was Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Henry Seward. Resentful that Lincoln had deprived him of the Republican nomination and convinced that Lincoln lacked the political sophistication necessary to deal with the secession crisis, Seward decided to negotiate with the Confederacy on his own and in secret. General Winfield Scott, meanwhile, the Union’s most senior military officer, had for a decade depended upon Seward for political advice, and now considered himself under orders from Seward, not the president. Johnson traces how Seward and Scott sabotaged Lincoln’s plan. From this account, from his examination of various personalities (such as that of Fort Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderson), and from his granular research into aspects of the Order of Battle in Charleston, Johnson has here constructed a new narrative of this crucial period, culminating in a new theory of how and why the Civil War began as it did, and how and why, if the new president’s orders had been properly carried out by Seward and Scott, it might have been averted.
Author | : Lincoln First Banks, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 197? |
Genre | : Bank buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James McKee, Edward Zimmer, and Matthew Hansen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1467111694 |
Lincoln's predecessor, Lancaster, formed in 1863 on the east bank of Salt Creek around a proposed Methodist female seminary. When Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, the village of Lancaster was chosen as its first capital, and the name was changed to Lincoln.
Author | : Nettie Colburn Maynard |
Publisher | : Ancient Wisdom Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780978393977 |
This volume is a firsthand account of the author's experiences as a spiritualist medium in Washington during the Civil War. It depicts the beginnings of the Spiritualist movement in the 1840s and describes specific sances and meetings with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln that took place in the White House from 1863 to 1865.
Author | : George Measom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Jonathan Clark |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789257387 |
This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle and a reborn historical attraction for the city of Lincoln.
Author | : John Fabian Witt |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416576177 |
"By one of the nation's foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war. In the fateful closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln's top military advisors commissioned a code of rules to govern the armies of the United States in a newly intensified war effort. The code Lincoln issued the next spring helped shape the remaining two years of Civil War. Its rules on torture, prisoners of war, assassination, and more quickly became foundations of the modern laws of war and today's Geneva Conventions. Yet the hidden story of Lincoln's code, and of the decades of controversy that lay behind it, has never been told. In this masterful and strikingly original history, John Witt charts the alternately troubled and triumphant course of the laws of war in America from the Founding Founders to the dawn of the modern era, revealing the history of a code that reshaped the laws of war the world over. Ranging from the Revolution to the War of 1812, from war with Mexico to the Civil War, from Indian wars to the brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines, Witt tells a story that features presidents as well as men in the throes of battle, one that spans war-makers and pacifists, Indians and slaves. In a time of heated controversy about the nation's conduct in the war on terror, Lincoln's Code is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience."--