Abraham Lincoln and the Union : a chronicle of the embattled North . NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESST GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. i,L HUMPHREY MILF O -- NIVERSITY PR^ 1921 ABRAHAM LINCOLXPhotograph by Mathew Brady, Washington, February 23, 1863. f ABRAHAM LINCOLNAND THE UNION A CHRONICLE OF THE EMBATTLED NORTH BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON LVXET LVXET. NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921 Copyright, 1918, hy Yale University Press TOCHARLES JACOB LIVINGOOD PREFACE In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historianwho attempts
Abraham Lincoln and the Union : a chronicle of the embattled North . NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESST GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. i,L HUMPHREY MILF O -- NIVERSITY PR^ 1921 ABRAHAM LINCOLXPhotograph by Mathew Brady, Washington, February 23, 1863. f ABRAHAM LINCOLNAND THE UNION A CHRONICLE OF THE EMBATTLED NORTH BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON LVXET LVXET. NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921 Copyright, 1918, hy Yale University Press TOCHARLES JACOB LIVINGOOD PREFACE In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historianwho attempts to portray the era of Lincoln is stillfaced with almost impossible demands and stillconfronted with arbitrary points of view. It isout of the question, in a book so brief as thismust necessarily be, to meet all these demands orto alter these points of view. Interests that arepurely local, events that did not with certaintycontribute to the final outcome, gossip, as well asthe mere caprice of the scholar—these must ob-viously be set aside. The task imposed upon the volume resolvesitseK, at bottom, into just two questions: Whywas there a Why was the Lincoln Govern-ment successful.^ With these two questions al-ways in mind I have endeavored, on the one hand,to select and consolidate the pertinent facts; on the other, to make
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