Lincoln's forgotten friend, Leonard Swett
By: Robert S. Eckley
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780809332052; 9780809332069
Subjects: Friends and associates; Lawyers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A wandering youth; title: The road to Mount Pulaski; title: The great triumvirate of the Eighth Judicial Circuit; title: Politics overtakes the law; title: From the Wigwam to Washington; title: And the war came; title: Witness to the emancipation; title: Quicksilver and New Almaden; title: This terrible war; title: A strategic decision; title: Legal advocate and civic leader; title: The better angels of our nature.