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Brigadier General Edward E. Wood

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Author: Bradley, A. Day

Date of Publication: 1975

; or One Hundred and Sixty-Second of the Line Pennsylvania Volunteers. Theodore W. Bean, Phil- adelphia, 1865, 32-3. The writer has included some incidents from his per- sonal recollection of Edward E. Wood. 3 The Civil War Record of Edward E. Wood is contained in the History of the Seventeenth

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Responsibility: by A. Day Bradley.

Author: Bradley, A. Day

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1975

Physical Description: [1]-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 79, no. 1

Subjects: Wood, Edward E., - 1846-1924.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 79, number 1 (1975), p. 1-5Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.79

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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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Responsibility: Richard Carwardine.

ISBN: 1400044561; 9781400044566

Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.

Contents: 1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.

Summary: A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.