Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Starr - LP) quill ISHS Annual Award for a

ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication

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This part of the surrender story occupies but little space in the vast annals of Civil War literature

The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president

Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Starr - LP) quill ISHS Annual Award for aStanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr Walter Stahr, award winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincolns 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 (18141869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised