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Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. In Lincoln's Men, William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president could become "Father Abraham" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did the Army of the Potomac, yearning for the grandeur of McClellan, turn instead to the comfort of Old Abe, and how was this change of loyalty crucial to final victory?
Davis removes layers of mythmaking to recapture the moods and feelings of an army facing one of history's bloodiest conflicts. Tracing the popular fate of decisions to invoke conscription, to fire McClellan, and to free the slaves, Lincoln's Men casts a new light on our most famous president - the light, that is, of the peculiar mass medium that was the Union Army.
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Correspondence, Relations with soldiers, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Diaries, Public opinion, Military leadership, Soldiers, Personal narratives, History, Récits personnels, Histoire, Opinion publique, Command of troops, Militär, Führung, Soldat, Politieke leiding, Amerikaanse burgeroorlog, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Public opinoin, Correspondence and Diaries, United States, Civil War, 1861-1865People
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Lincoln's men: how President Lincoln became father to an army and a nation
1999, Free Press
in English
0684833379 9780684833378
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-307) and index.
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