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Lincoln President-Elect
Lincoln President-Elect
Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861  
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE THE PROMISE OF SOMETHING BETTER

Chapter One The Government Is About to Fall into Our Hands

Chapter Two My Troubles Have Just Commenced

Chapter Three We Won't Jump That Ditch

Chapter Four A Masterly Inactivity

Chapter Five The Tug Has to Come

Chapter Six Very Much Like the Critter

PART TWO THE MOMENTOUS ISSUE OF CIVIL WAR

Chapter Seven If We Surrender, It Is the End of Us

Chapter Eight Will You Hazard So Desperate a Step?

Chapter Nine With a Task Before Me

Chapter Ten No Occasion for Any Excitement

Chapter Eleven I Would Rather Be Assassinated

Chapter Twelve Plain as a Turnpike Road

Chapter Thirteen The Ultimate Justice of the People

Epilogue Mystic Chords of Memory

What Became of...?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index