Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War / James R. Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, James R. (James Roberts), 1822-1903.

Series:

Stackpole classic reprint

A Stackpole classic reprint

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1864--Personal narratives.

United States.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2007.

Summary:

Reporter James R. Gilmore first interviewed President Abraham Lincoln the day after the Civil War erupted in April 1861 and, over the course of the war, came to know the president intimately. Gathered here are Gilmore's firsthand accounts of his meetings with Lincoln, where the president openly discussed military and political strategy, including the response to the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the Emancipation Proclamation. Gilmore also writes about his encounters with influential newspaperman Horace Greeley, his two weeks at the front with Union general William Rosecrans, and his behind-enemy-lines interview with Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1864. Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will delight readers with its inside look at Lincoln's wartime leadership and its lively recreation of this turbulent period of American history.

Contents:

Chapter I My First Interview with President Lincoln 9

Chapter II A Cabinet Session on a Momentous Occasion 23

Chapter III The Great Uprising 33

Chapter IV My First Acquaintance with Horace Greeley 39

Chapter V The Conception of the Emancipation Proclamation 49

Chapter VI The Genesis of the Book "Among the Pines" 65

Chapter VII The Emancipation Proclamation 75

Chapter VIII My Connection with the New York Tribune 86

Chapter IX The Dissatisfaction with President Lincoln 95

Chapter X Travel in War Time 104

Chapter XI With "Old Rosey" 114

Chapter XII Rosecrans Declines the Presidential Nomination 137

Chapter XIII Conferences with President Lincoln 148

Chapter XIV The Tribune in the Draft Riots 167

Chapter XV The Proposed Recession of North Carolina 206

Chapter XVI The Preliminaries to the Peace Mission of 1864 230

Chapter XVII Our Visit to Richmond 248.

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : L.C. Page and Co., 1898.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780811702614

0811702618

OCLC:

79001535