Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic

Authors

Mark Wahlgren Summers

ISBN

978-0-8071-3707-9

Price

$48.00

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Abstract

An Updated Look at Senator Fessenden

William Pitt Fessenden was a senator’s senator. Dyspeptic, diligent, incorruptible and on some subjects indispensable, an aggressive debater and constructive force in committee, the Maine Republican came close to what the Founders must have envisione....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.13.3.19

Recommended Citation

Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2011) "Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 13 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.13.3.19
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol13/iss3/35