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" 1858 : "
Bruce Chadwick.
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BL
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997375
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b751745
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| Main Entry
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Chadwick, Bruce.
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1858 : : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the war they failed to see /\ Bruce Chadwick.
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| Publication Statement
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Naperville, Ill. :: Sourcebooks, Inc.,, ©2008.
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x, 355 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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140220941X
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: 9781402209413
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
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| Contents
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The White House, New Year's Day, 1858 -- The death of Jefferson Davis -- The White House, early 1858: one year of Dred Scott -- Colonel Robert E. Lee leaves the military forever -- The White House, February 1858: showdown with Stephen Douglas -- Honest Abe and the little giant: the Lincoln-Douglas debates, part one -- The White House, July 1858 -- Honest Abe and the little giant: the Lincoln-Douglas debates, part two -- The White House, autumn 1858: the Forney feud -- Oberlin, Ohio: the rescuers -- The White House, October 1858 -- William Seward: the "irrepressible conflict: -- The White House, Election Day -- William Tecumseh Sherman: dead-ended -- The White House, winter 1858: swashbuckling in the Americas -- Terrible swift sword: John Brown's Christmas raid into Missouri -- The White House, December 1858.
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1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.
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Generals-- Southern States, Biography.
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Generals-- United States, Biography.
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Politicians-- Southern States, Biography.
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Politicians-- United States, Biography.
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Secession-- Southern States.
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Generals.
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Politicians.
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Politics and government
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Secession.
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War-- Causes.
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Southern States, Politics and government, 1775-1865.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.
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United States, Politics and government, 1857-1861.
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Southern States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7/11
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E458.C425 2008
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| Parallel Title
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Eighteen fifty-eight
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