Excerpts from: Abraham Lincoln : a history / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-167) and index.
Contents
1. Election Day 1860 and Cabinet Making -- 2. The Fort Sumter Crisis: March-April 1861 -- 3. Distributing Patronage: 1861 -- 4. Frontier Guards at the White House: 1861 -- 5. Washington Besieged: April 1861-- 6. The First Battle of Bull Run: July 21, 1861 -- 7. Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton -- 8. Lincoln and General George B. McClellan -- 9. Lincoln Removes McClellan from Command: November 1862 -- 10. Cabinet Crisis: December 1862 -- 11. Lincoln's Fame
