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Abraham Lincoln and the Union, A Chronicle of the Embattled North

BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON




NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1918



PREFACE

In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historian who attempts to
portray the era of Lincoln is still faced with almost impossible
demands and still confronted with arbitrary points of view. It
is out of the question, in a book so brief as this must