How We Elected Lincoln : : Personal Recollections / / Abram J. Dittenhoefer.

Abram J. Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform. Even though he was in his early twenties, he quickly established himself as a savvy and creative campaigner, and when h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (120 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • I. The Man-Lincoln
  • II. Lincoln's Introduction to the East
  • III. How Lincoln Was First Nominated
  • IV. How Lincoln Was First Elected
  • V. The Journey to the Capital
  • VI. Stories and Incidents
  • VII. Four Years of Stress and Strain
  • VIII. The Renomination
  • IX. The Campaign of 1864