The union forever
Subtitle: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War
By: John Y. Simon ; edited by Glenn W. LaFantasie for the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Institute for Civil War Studies, Western Kentucky University ; foreword by Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams
Contributors: LaFantasie, Glenn W.
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky; University Press OF KENTUCKY
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Kentucky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780813134444
Subjects: Command of troops; Campaigns; Politics and government; Military leadership; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Abraham Lincoln.  House divided: Lincoln and his father; title: Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge; title: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Fort Sumter; title: "Freeing some and leaving others alone": Lincoln's emancipation policy; title: Lincoln and "Old Brains" Halleck; title: Lincoln's despair: the crisis during the summer of 1864; title: The personal sentiments of Mr. Lincoln; title: Part 2.  Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant one hundred years later; title: The paradox of Ulysses S. Grant; title: A marriage tested by war: Ulysses and Julia Grant; title: From Galena to Appomattox: Grant and Washburne; title: That obnoxious order; title: The road to Appomattox: the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant; title: Part 3.  Lincoln and Grant. Lincoln, Grant, and Kentucky in 1861; title: Grant, Lincoln, and unconditional surrender.