On Lincoln

Civil War History Readers, Volume 3

John T. Hubbell

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781606352007
• eBook ISBN:
  9781612778525
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy, and tactics to political leadership, race, abolitionism, the draft, and women's issues, and from the war's causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle Period.

In this third volume of the Civil War History Readers, John T. Hubbell has selected groundbreaking essays by Douglas L. Wilson, Mark Neely Jr., Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, Ludwell Johnson, Allen Guelzo, and other scholars who examine Lincoln's assertive idealism, leadership, views on slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, and Lincoln as a war president. Hubbell's introduction assesses the contribution of each article to our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War era.

Index

Abell, Mrs. E. H., 52–53

abolitionism: called threat to republic, 15, 24–25; Lincoln and, 27, 176, 246; Metropolitan Record on, 168–70, 176; nationalism and, 243n39; as requirement for peace negotiations, 225–26; Storey’s hatred of, 155–56; Van Buren on, 15, 25–26, 28; vs. Union preservation in Civil War goals, 154–55, 170–71, 247–48, 252–53

abolitionists, 237; Lincoln and, 4, 9, 238; mob action against, 27–28, 34

Abraham Lincoln: Quest for Immortality (Anderson), 37

African Americans, 180; competing for jobs, 184–86, 250, 256; freedom and rights promised for fighting for Union, 274, 277; hostility to free, 183, 256–57; humanity of, 243–46; Lincoln on, 225, 241, 249; rights for, 237, 276, 277; Storey’s hatred of, 155–56; in Union Army, 132–34, 174, 183, 224, 251, 272, 279

Altschuler, Glenn, 262

ambition: Lincoln’s, 19, 38–39, 116–17; Mary Todd Lincoln’s, 76

American Colonization Society, 244

Ammen, Jacob, 157–58

amnesty, in Lincoln’s Civil War strategy, 132–33

Anderson, Dwight G., 20, 37

Angle, Paul M.: on documentation for Ann Rutledge story, 44–45, 48, 51, 58, 60–61; on Lincoln’s broken engagement, 69, 89, 94

Antietam, Battle of, 125, 129, 219

aristocracy, Lincoln’s marriage into, 78–79

Armstrong, Jack, 64–66

Army of the Potomac, 126–30

Arnold, Isaac N., 264, 278–79; suppression of Chicago Times and, 158–60, 162–63, 164n63

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Eisenschiml), 292

Ashmun, George, 101–2, 107–9, 115

assassination, Lincoln’s, 283; effects of, 235; Eisenschiml accusing Stanton of masterminding, 284–87, 289–90, 292–93; War Department report on, 284

Atlanta, Union victory at, 228–29

Baker, Edward D., 79, 102–3, 116, 118

Bale, Hardin, 50

banking system, 23, 31

Banks, Nathaniel P., 144, 272n29

Barton, William E., 202n6

Basler, Roy, 163

Bateman, Norman, 265

Beard, Charles, 188n2

Beauregard, P. G. T., 127, 141–43

Bell, Ann, 81

Bell, James, 82, 94

Bell, Jane D., 81–82, 87, 91

Bell, Lizzie Herndon, 52, 54

Benjamin, Judah P., 138

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 238, 241

Bennett, William, 52

Beveridge, Albert J., 45, 49, 65, 100

Bible, influence on Lincoln, 32–33

Bixby, Lydia, 177

Black, Chauncey (Lamon’s ghost), 78n20, 80

black militants, hostility to Lincoln, 237–39, 247

Black Republicans, 243

Blaine, James G., 252

Blair, Montgomery, 152, 256

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 100–101

blockade, and cotton tr...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Abraham Lincoln as Revolutionary
• Lincoln and Van Buren in the Steps of the Fathers: Another Look at the Lyceum Address
• On the Verge of Greatness: Psychological Reflections on Lincoln at the Lyceum
• Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and the Evidence of Herndon’s Informants
• Abraham Lincoln and “That Fatal First of January”
• Lincoln and the Mexican War: An Argument by Analogy
• Lincoln as Military Strategist
• Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln as War Presidents: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
• To Suppress or Not to Suppress: Abraham Lincoln and the Chicago Times
• “A Catholic Family Newspaper” Views the Lincoln Administration: John Mullaly’s Copperhead Weekly
• Abraham Lincoln on Labor and Capital
• Lincoln’s Calvinist Transformation: Emancipation and War
• Only His Stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro
• Defending Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, 1863
• The Historian as Gamesman: Otto Eisenschiml, 1880–1963
• Contributors
• Index