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1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See.

by Chadwick, Bruce.
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author to Reader -- Chapter One: The White House, New Year's Day 1858 -- Chapter Two: The Death of Jefferson Davis -- Chapter Three: The White House, Early 1858: One Year of Dred Scott -- Chapter Four: Colonel Robert E. Lee Leaves the Military Forever -- Chapter Five: The White House, February 1858: Showdown with Stephen Douglas -- Chapter Six: Honest Abe and the Little Giant: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Part One -- Chapter Seven: The White House, July 1858 -- Chapter Eight: Honest Abe and the Little Giant: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Part Two -- Chapter Nine: The White House, Autumn 1858: The Forney Feud -- Chapter Ten: Oberlin, Ohio: The Rescuers -- Chapter Eleven: The White House, October 1858 -- Chapter Twelve: William Seward: The "Irrepressible Conflict" -- Chapter Thirteen: The White House, Election Day -- Chapter Fourteen: William Tecumseh Sherman: Dead-Ended -- Chapter Fifteen: The White House, Winter 1858: Swashbuckling in the Americas -- Chapter Sixteen: Terrible Swift Sword: John Brown's Christmas Raid into Missouri -- Chapter Seventeen: The White House, December 1858 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Back Cover.
Summary: 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author to Reader -- Chapter One: The White House, New Year's Day 1858 -- Chapter Two: The Death of Jefferson Davis -- Chapter Three: The White House, Early 1858: One Year of Dred Scott -- Chapter Four: Colonel Robert E. Lee Leaves the Military Forever -- Chapter Five: The White House, February 1858: Showdown with Stephen Douglas -- Chapter Six: Honest Abe and the Little Giant: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Part One -- Chapter Seven: The White House, July 1858 -- Chapter Eight: Honest Abe and the Little Giant: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Part Two -- Chapter Nine: The White House, Autumn 1858: The Forney Feud -- Chapter Ten: Oberlin, Ohio: The Rescuers -- Chapter Eleven: The White House, October 1858 -- Chapter Twelve: William Seward: The "Irrepressible Conflict" -- Chapter Thirteen: The White House, Election Day -- Chapter Fourteen: William Tecumseh Sherman: Dead-Ended -- Chapter Fifteen: The White House, Winter 1858: Swashbuckling in the Americas -- Chapter Sixteen: Terrible Swift Sword: John Brown's Christmas Raid into Missouri -- Chapter Seventeen: The White House, December 1858 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Back Cover.

1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.

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