Selected Bibliography: “Team of Rivals”

Not intended as an exhaustive bibliography of additional resources on Lincoln’s cabinet, the following titles will provide the reader with additional insights into the men who served in Lincoln’s cabinet, his “Team of Rivals.” Consult your local library for the availability of these and other titles.

General Biographies

David Herbert Donald, We are Lincoln men: Abraham Lincoln and his friends [Simon & Schuster, c2004]. L2 D675w 2004

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln [Simon & Schuster, c2005]. L2 G656t

Chester G. Hearn, Lincoln, the cabinet, and the generals [Louisiana State University Press, 2010]. L2 H4358L

Burton Jesse Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet [Peter Smith, 1965 [c1946]. L2 H4981L

Clarence Edward Noble Macartney, Lincoln and his cabinet [Scribner, 1931]. L2 M116Li

Edward Bates

Edward Bates, The diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866 [U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1933]. L2 B3293d

Marvin R. Cain, Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri [University of Missouri Press, c1965]. E B3285c

Montgomery Blair

William E. Smith, The Francis Preston Blair family in politics [Macmillan Co., 1933]. F883.3 B635s

Simon Cameron

Erwin Stanley Bradley, Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War [University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966]. E C182b

Lee F. Crippen, Simon Cameron, ante-bellum years [Mississippi Valley Press, 1942]. E C182c

Salmon P. Chase

Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: a life in politics [Kent State University Press, c1987]. E C4875bL

Salmon P. Chase, Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: the Civil War diaries of Salmon P. Chase [Longmans, Green, 1954]. F834 C487i

Salmon P. Chase, The Salmon P. Chase papers [Kent State University Press, c1993-c1998]. E C4875 v.1-5 v.1-5

Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon Portland Chase [Houghton Mifflin, [1917?]. EZ A512 v. 28 v. 28

John Niven, Salmon P. Chase: a biography [Oxford University Press, 1995]. E C4875n

William Henry Seward

Lawrence M. Denton, William Henry Seward and the secession crisis: the effort to prevent civil war [McFarland & Co., c2009]. E S5148d

John M. Taylor, William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s right hand [HarperCollins, c1991]. E S5148t

Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward [Oxford University Press, 1967]. E S5148v

Caleb Blood Smith

Richard J. Thomas, Caleb Blood Smith: Whig orator and politician - - Lincoln’s Secretary of Interior [University Microfilms International, 1981]. F895.3 S644t

Edwin M. Stanton

George C. Gorham, Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton [Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899]. E S792g

William D. Kelley, Lincoln and Stanton; a study of the war administration of 1861 and 1862 [G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885]. L2 K29L

Fletcher Pratt, Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War [Norton, 1953]. E S792p

Benjamin Platt Thomas, Stanton; the life and times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War [Knopf, 1962]. E S792t

Ben Ames Williams, “Mr. Secretary” [Macmillan Co., 1940]. E S792w

Gideon Welles

John Niven, Gideon Welles; Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy [Oxford University Press, 1973]. F846.3 W449n

Symonds, Craig L., Lincoln and his admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U. S. Navy, and the Civil War [Oxford University Press, 2008]. L2 S988L Proof

Welles, Gideon, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, with an introduction by John T. Morse, Jr. [Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911]. L2 W449d

West, Richard S., Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s navy department [Bobbs-Merrill, c1943]. F846.3 W449w

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