1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history / Charles Bracelen Flood.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; London : Simon & Schuster, c2009.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: xi, 521 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781416552284
  • 1416552286
  • 9781416552291 (pbk.)
  • 1416552294 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Eighteen sixty-four
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.9092 22
  • 973.9092 FLO 2009
LOC classification:
  • E457.45 .F58 2009
Summary: Historian-biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West. In that crucial year, the Civil War was far from won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally bring victory. At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to negotiate to leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and was unknowingly stalked by John Wilkes Booth.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-491) and index.

Historian-biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West. In that crucial year, the Civil War was far from won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally bring victory. At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to negotiate to leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and was unknowingly stalked by John Wilkes Booth.--From publisher description.

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