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Inside Lincoln's White House [electronic resource] : the complete Civil War diary of John Hay / edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hay, John, 1838-1905.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statesmen--United States--Diaries.
- Statesmen.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- Hay, John, 1838-1905--Diaries.
- Hay, John.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Friends and associates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that ""some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world.""The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a ""harrowing communication,"" Hay continued his entry: ""They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché.
- Contents:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; 1. 1861; 2. 1862; 3. 1863; 4. 1864; Appendix: Speech to the Citizents of Florida; Notes; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69736-9
- 9786613674326
- 0-8093-8310-1
- 0-585-10658-4
- OCLC:
- 44954715
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