Documentary history of the American Civil War era. Volume 2, Political arguments / [electronic resource]. edited by Thomas C. Mackey.

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-413) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A documentary history of the American Civil War Era -- Voices of the politicians and political parties -- Voices of the administrations -- Buchanan -- Lincoln -- Davis -- Johnson -- Grant -- Hayes -- Chronology -- Selected readings -- Index.

This collection of documents, headnotes, and introductory essays enriches the study of the middle period of the nineteenth-century United States by providing students and scholars access to the most important (and sometimes Documentary History of the American Civil War Era overlooked and difficult to locate) public policy and judicial decisions in the era of Abraham Lincoln.

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