Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
A Selected Bibliography
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Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899. 1. Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy. New York: J.R. Anderson & H.S. Allen, 1883.
Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884. 2. The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery. Chicago: Clarke & Co.,1866.
Baker, William M. (George F. Harrington, pseud.) 1825-1883. 3. Inside: a Chronicle of Secession. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866.
Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895. 4. Narrative of riots at Alton: in Connection With the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. Alton [Ill.] G. Holton, 1838.
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 5. Battle Sketches. London: First Edition Club, 1930.
Bulloch, James D., 1823-1901. 6. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884.
Cairnes, John Elliott, 1823-1875. 7. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest . New York: Carleton, 1862.
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell, 1830-1900. 8. Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln . London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1866.
Carpenter, Stephen D., 1821-1906. 9. Logic of history Five Hundred Political Texts. Madison: S.D. Carpenter, 1864.
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.
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10. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade, by the British Parliament. Wilmington: R. Porter, 1816.
Crosby, Franklin. 11. Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States. Philadelphia: J. E. Potter, 1865.
Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916. 12. Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant and General William T. Sherman . Council Bluffs, Ia: Monarch Printing Company, 1914.
Dodge, William Sumner . 13. Waif of the War. Chicago: Church and Goodman, 1866.
Eddy, Thomas Mears, 1823-1874. 14. The Patriotism of Illinois. Chicago: Clarke and Company., 1865-66.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, ed. 15. A Political Text-book for 1860. New-York: Tribune Association, 1860.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 and John L. Hayes. 16. Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. 17. Poems on Slavery. Boston: New England Anti-Slavery Tract Association, 1843.
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. 18. My Study Windows (entry on Abraham Lincoln). Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871.
McBride, Robert W. 1842-1926. 19. Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by a Member of His Bodyguard. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926.
Moore, Frank, 1828-1904. 20. The Civil War in Song and Story . New York: P.F. Collier, 1889.
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Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851. 21. The Bible Defence of Slavery. Louisville: Bradley and Gilbert for R.R. Black, 1859.
Rice, Allen Thorndike, 1851-1889, ed. 22. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time . New York: North American Publishing Company, 1886.
Senour, Faunt Le Roy, 1824-1910. 23. Major General William T. Sherman, and His Campaign . Chicago: H.M. Sherwood, 1865.
Stevenson, William G. 24. Thirteen months in the Rebel Army. New York: A.S. Barnes and Burr, 1862.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. 25. The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London: Clarke, Beeton, 1853.
Tomes, Robert, 1817-1882. 26. The War with the South. New York: Virtue, 1862.
Valentine, David, 1801-1869. 27. Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, in the City of New York, under the auspices of the Common Council. New York: E. Jones and Company
Wilkie, Franc B, 1832-1892. 27. Walks about Chicago, 1871-1881: and Army and Miscellaneous Sketches. Chicago: Press of Church. Goodman and Donnelley, 1869.
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