Lincoln's hundred days : the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the Union / Louis P. Masur.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012Description: viii, 358 pages : illustrations 25 cmISBN: - 9780674066908
- E 453 .M398 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-335) and index.
September 22, 1862: Lincoln tells a story -- Toward emancipation -- Messages and measures -- A new departure -- Movement -- Judgments -- The reactions of scholars and soldiers -- Intervention and election fever -- "We cannot escape history" -- Standing firm -- Jubilee -- "Men of color, to arms!" -- "It can not be retracted" -- Emancipation triumphant -- April 4, 1865: Lincoln visits Richmond.
Examines the period between when Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, and when he signed the final, significantly altered draft on January 1, 1863, discussing the events that impacted that changes to the document.
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