ISBN
978-1476739434
Publication Date
April 2020
Price
$35.00
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Abstract
During February 1861, President-elect Lincoln traveled by train from his home in Springfield, Illinois to the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. While he crossed through eight states, crowds gathered to greet him at train stations along his route. The trip was both personally and politically perilous, but it offered him an opportunity to establish himself as a visible leader. Widmer’s book shows the president’s trip as his first step to a preordained immortality.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.22.3.14
Recommended Citation
Williams, Frank J.
(2020)
"Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 22
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Iss.
3
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.22.3.14
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol22/iss3/14
