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Please see my other listings for similar rare books! Please see my other listings for similar sets of Abraham Lincoln. The Works of ABRAHAM LINCOLN! First Edition/First Printing of this edition. The rare and highly desirable SPONSORS EDITION. This being THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF LINCOLNS WORKS. Edited by NICOLAY & HAY. Complete in 12 volumes. This set is not dated, but historical record of the Lincoln Memorial University, is 1926. This set is considered the definitive edition of Lincoln, by Nicolay and Hay. Still bound in the original bindings. IN MINT+ & UNREAD CONDITION! There were 4 different binding variations available for this set. This is the Original Intricately Gilded Fine Cloth Binding. This is the rare Sponsors Edition of Lincoln’s Works and is extremely difficult to obtain. The exceedingly rare and highly desirable Sponsor’s Edition of Abraham Lincoln. In the original binding. In MINT+ & UNREAD condition. These require approximately 18 inches of shelf space. These are large books measuring roughly 9.25 inches tall. LINCOLNS COMPLETE WORKS , EDITED BY NICOLAY AND HAY. [Harrogate, Tennessee]: Lincoln Memorial University, [1926]. Octavo, original fine binding, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt. Of the definitive edition of Lincolns works, illustrated with photogravures and facsimiles, including a. Portrait in each volume. Nicolay, Lincolns private secretary, enjoyed the full intimate friendship of the President few men were as close to Lincoln as Nicolay or so fully enjoyed his confidence (DAB VII: 511). After serving as Lincolns assistant and confidant, Hay achieved literary fame as the co-author of the definitive biography of Lincoln, and for his skill in helping edit Lincolns Complete Works (first published beginning in 1894). Lincoln Memorial University, founded in 1897, produced this edition in 1926 not only to fund its endowment but also to open a fountain of Lincolniana to which all true Americans will repair to refresh their faith in, and love and zeal for, American ideals and institutions. The text is issued from the. Of the New and Enlarged Edition, which was first published in 1905. Volume XII (Anthology of Sayings and Index) apparently supplied from another set, bound in fine cloth with elaborately gilt-decorated spine and front board. This was a rare and limited release. Exceptionally fresh and well preserved. Exceedingly rare in this condition. This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any fine library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office! I will pack this set very securely to ensure safe arrival at your doorstep. All books are individually wrapped and professionally padded. Please see our other listings for similar rare books! Octavo, original three-quarter red. Elaborately gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt. Nicolay and Hay were friends from an early age. In 1860 they were selected as. And assistant secretary, respectively, to. Of the United States, and served throughout his presidency. Each of them became notable in his own right as both went on to other offices, Hay later serving as. The collective term “Nicolay and Hay” usually refers to them as co-authors of the ten-volume. Abraham Lincoln: A History. One of the earliest and most important comprehensive biographies of Abraham Lincoln. The term is also used as shorthand when citing the biography itself. Nicolay and Hay also co-edited Lincoln’s. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States. From March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War. Its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union. Paved the way for the abolition of slavery. Strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. President Lincoln in November 1863. 16th President of the United States. March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865. (18611865) Andrew Johnson (MarchApril 1865). March 4, 1847 March 3, 1849. Member of the Illinois House of Representatives. February 12, 1809 Sinking Spring Farm. April 15, 1865(aged 56) Petersen House. United States of America. 3 months (April 21, 1832 July 10, 1832). (April 21, 1832 May 27, 1832). (May 28, 1832 July 10, 1832). (Note: Discharged from command-rank of Captain and re-enlisted at rank of Private). Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Lincoln grew up on the western frontier. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois. Leader, and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. In which he served for eight years. Elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy and opposed the MexicanAmerican War. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party. Which had a statewide majority in Illinois. As part of the 1858 campaign for US Senator from Illinois, Lincoln took part in a series of highly publicized debates. With his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the race to Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Though there were attempts to bridge the differences between North and South, ultimately Lincoln’s victory prompted seven southern slave states to secede from the United States and form the Confederate States of America. Before he moved into the White House. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Inspired the North to rally behind the Union. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans. Who demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats. Who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp, anti-war Democrats called Copperheads. , who despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists, who plotted his assassination. Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other, by carefully planned political patronage. And by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. Became an iconic endorsement of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. He suspended habeas corpus. Leading to the controversial. Decision, and he averted potential British intervention by defusing the. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. He made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade. That shut down the South’s trade. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery included the Emancipation Proclamation. Of 1863; Lincoln used the U. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states. To outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Which permanently outlawed slavery. An astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war’s conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction. Seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. On April 14, 1865, five days after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. And died the next day. Lincoln has been consistently ranked. As among the greatest U. Early career and militia service. House of Representatives, 184749. Main article: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 1860 election and secession. Main articles: United States presidential election, 1860. In 1860, northern and western electoral. Votes (shown in red) put Lincoln into the White House. March 1861 inaugural at the Capitol building. Above the rotunda was still under construction. On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states. Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes. Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln. Bell won Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Breckinridge won the rest of the South. Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college. Was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123. There were fusion tickets. In which all of Lincoln’s opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College. The first photographic portrait of the new president. As Lincoln’s election became evident, secessionists made clear their intent to leave the Union before he took office the next March. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed. Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America. The upper South and border states (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, declaring secession illegal. The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis. As its provisional President on February 9, 1861. There were attempts at compromise. Would have extended the Missouri Compromise. Line of 1820, dividing the territories into slave and free, contrary to the Republican Party’s free-soil platform. Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, I will suffer death before I consent… Lincoln, however, did tacitly support the proposed Corwin Amendment. To the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln came into office and was then awaiting ratification by the states. That proposed amendment would have protected slavery in states where it already existed and would have guaranteed that Congress would not interfere with slavery without Southern consent. A few weeks before the war, Lincoln sent a letter to every governor informing them Congress had passed a joint resolution to amend the Constitution. Lincoln was open to the possibility of a constitutional convention to make further amendments to the Constitution. En route to his inauguration by train, Lincoln addressed crowds and legislatures across the North. The president-elect then evaded possible assassins. In Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln’s head of security, Allan Pinkerton. On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. Which was placed under substantial military guard. Lincoln directed his inaugural address. To the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states. Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. The President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies… The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The failure of the Peace Conference of 1861. Signaled that legislative compromise was impossible. By March 1861, no leaders of the insurrection had proposed rejoining the Union on any terms. Meanwhile, Lincoln and the Republican leadership agreed that the dismantling of the Union could not be tolerated. Lincoln said as the war was ending. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. Main articles: American Civil War. And Battle of Fort Sumter. The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson. Sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln’s order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter. Forcing them to surrender, and began the war. Argued that the newly inaugurated Lincoln made three miscalculations: underestimating the gravity of the crisis, exaggerating the strength of Unionist sentiment in the South, and not realizing the Southern Unionists were insisting there be no invasion. Talked to Lincoln during inauguration week and was “sadly disappointed” at his failure to realize that “the country was sleeping on a volcano” and that the South was preparing for war. Concludes that, His repeated efforts to avoid collision in the months between inauguration and the firing on Ft. Sumter showed he adhered to his vow not to be the first to shed fraternal blood. But he also vowed not to surrender the forts. The only resolution of these contradictory positions was for the confederates to fire the first shot; they did just that. On April 15, Lincoln called on all the states to send detachments totaling 75,000 troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and “preserve the Union”, which, in his view, still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states. This call forced the states to choose sides. Virginia declared its secession and was rewarded with the Confederate capital, despite the exposed position of Richmond. So close to Union lines. North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas also voted for secession over the next two months. Secession sentiment was strong in Missouri and Maryland, but did not prevail; Kentucky tried to be neutral. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter rallied Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line. To the defense of the American nation. Historian Allan Nevins says. The thunderclap of Sumter produced a startling crystallization of Northern sentiment… Anger swept the land. From every side came news of mass meetings, speeches, resolutions, tenders of business support, the muster of companies and regiments, the determined action of governors and legislatures. States sent Union regiments south in response to Lincoln’s call to save the capital and confront the rebellion. On April 19, mobs in Baltimore, which controlled the rail links, attacked Union troops. Who were changing trains, and local leaders’ groups later burned critical rail bridges to the capital. The Army responded by arresting local Maryland. Lincoln suspended the writ of. In areas the army felt it needed to secure for troops to reach Washington. A Maryland official involved in hindering the U. Troop movements, petitioned Supreme Court Chief Justice and Marylander, Roger B. Author of the controversial pro-slavery. Opinion, to issue a writ of. And in June Taney, acting as a circuit judge and not speaking for the Supreme Court, issued the writ, because in his opinion only Congress could suspend the writ. Lincoln continued the army policy that the writ was suspended in limited areas despite the Ex parte Merryman. After the Battle of Fort Sumter. Lincoln realized the importance of taking immediate executive control of the war and making an overall Union. Military strategy to put down the rebellion. Lincoln encountered an unprecedented political and military crisis, and he responded as commander-in-chief. Arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers. Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions. In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict. An 1864 political cartoon satirizing Lincoln’s administrationfeaturing William Fessenden. The war effort was the source of continued disparagement of Lincoln, and dominated his time and attention. From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army. Copperheads criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act. That authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort. In practice, the law had little effect, but it did signal political support for abolishing slavery in the Confederacy. In late August 1861, General John C. The 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting his superiors in Washington, a proclamation of martial law. He declared that any citizen found bearing arms could be court-martialed. And shot, and that slaves of persons aiding the rebellion would be freed. Frémont was already under a cloud with charges of negligence in his command of the Department of the West. Compounded with allegations of fraud and corruption. Lincoln overruled Frémont’s proclamation. Lincoln believed that Fremont’s emancipation was political; neither militarily necessary nor legal. After Lincoln acted, Union enlistments from Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri increased by over 40,000 troops. In foreign policy, Lincoln’s main goal was to stop military aid from countries abroad to the Confederacy. Lincoln left most diplomatic matters to his Secretary of State, William Seward. At times Seward was too bellicose, so for balance Lincoln stuck a close working relationship with Senator Charles Sumner. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain. On the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys; Britain protested vehemently while the U. Lincoln ended the crisis by releasing the two diplomats. Has dissected Lincoln’s successful techniques. His restraint, his avoidance of any outward expression of truculence, his early softening of State Department’s attitude toward Britain, his deference toward Seward and Sumner, his withholding of his own paper prepared for the occasion, his readiness to arbitrate, his golden silence in addressing Congress, his shrewdness in recognizing that war must be averted, and his clear perception that a point could be clinched for America’s true position at the same time that full satisfaction was given to a friendly country. Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraphic reports coming into the War Department. He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success (as well as their state and party). In January 1862, after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department, Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron. Stanton was a staunchly Unionist pro-business conservative Democrat who moved toward the Radical Republican faction. Nevertheless, he worked more often and more closely with Lincoln than any other senior official. “Stanton and Lincoln virtually conducted the war together, ” say Thomas and Hyman. In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days. Twice a week, Lincoln would meet with his cabinet in the afternoon, and occasionally Mary Lincoln would force him to take a carriage ride because she was concerned he was working too hard. Lincoln learned from reading the theoretical book of his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a disciple of the European strategist Jomini. He began to appreciate the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River. Lincoln saw the importance of Vicksburg. And understood the necessity of defeating the enemy’s army, rather than simply capturing territory. After the Union rout at Bull Run. The first major battle of the Civil War, and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott. In late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. General-in-chief of all the Union armies. McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign. Longer than Lincoln wanted. The campaign’s objective was to capture Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac. By boat to the peninsula and then overland to the Confederate capital. McClellan’s repeated delays frustrated Lincoln and Congress, as did his position that no troops were needed to defend Washington. Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan’s troops in defense of the capital; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign. Lincoln and George McClellan. After the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief in March 1862, after McClellan’s “Harrison’s Landing Letter”, in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort. The office remained empty until July, when Henry Halleck. Was selected for it. McClellan’s letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope. A Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia. Pope complied with Lincoln’s strategic desire to move toward Richmond from the north, thus protecting the capital from attack. However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run. In the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time. The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS. Damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS. Lincoln closely reviewed the dispatches and interrogated naval officers during their clash in the Battle of Hampton Roads. Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan’s failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward. Two days after McClellan’s return to command, General Robert E. S forces crossed the Potomac River. Into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam. The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation. Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation. McClellan then resisted the President’s demand that he pursue Lee’s retreating and exposed army, while his counterpart General Don Carlos Buell. Likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio. Against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee. As a result, Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans. And, after the 1862 midterm elections, he replaced McClellan with Republican Ambrose Burnside. Both of these replacements were political moderates and prospectively more supportive of the Commander-in-Chief. Union soldiers before Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, just prior to the battle of May 3, 1863. Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River. And was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg. Not only had Burnside been defeated on the battlefield, but his soldiers were disgruntled and undisciplined. Desertions during 1863 were in the thousands and they increased after Fredericksburg. Lincoln brought in Joseph Hooker. Despite his record of loose talk about the need for a military dictatorship. The military draft law. And fears that freed slaves would undermine the labor market. The Emancipation Proclamation announced in September gained votes for the Republicans in the rural areas of New England and the upper Midwest, but it lost votes in the cities and the lower Midwest. While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York. The Republicans did maintain their majorities in Congress and in the major states, except New York. Contended that the voters were “depressed by the interminable nature of this war, as so far conducted, and by the rapid exhaustion of the national resources without progress”. In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming military campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together; these plans included Hooker’s attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans’ on Chattanooga, Grant’s on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston. Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville. But continued to command his troops for some weeks. He ignored Lincoln’s order to divide his troops, and possibly force Lee to do the same in Harper’s Ferry. And tendered his resignation, which Lincoln accepted. He was replaced by George Meade. Who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign. Which was a victory for the Union, though Lee’s army avoided capture. At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln clearly understood that his military decisions would be more effectively carried out by conveying his orders through his War Secretary or his general-in-chief on to his generals, who resented his civilian interference with their own plans. Even so, he often continued to give detailed directions to his generals as Commander-in-Chief. Main articles: Abraham Lincoln and slavery. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. By Francis Bicknell Carpenter. Lincoln understood that the Federal government’s power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. At the beginning of the war, he also sought to persuade the states to accept compensated emancipation. In return for their prohibition of slavery. Lincoln believed that curtailing slavery in these ways would economically expunge it, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter. In May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union. On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory. In July, the Confiscation Act of 1862. Was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion. Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress’s power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature. He felt such action could only be taken by the Commander-in-Chief using war powers granted to the president by the Constitution, and Lincoln was planning to take that action. In that month, Lincoln discussed a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation with his cabinet. In it, he stated that “as a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves in the Confederate states will thenceforward, and forever, be free”. Privately, Lincoln concluded at this point that the slave base of the Confederacy had to be eliminated. However, Copperheads argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification. Republican editor Horace Greeley. Of the highly influential. Fell for the ploy. And Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862. Although he said he personally wished all men could be free, Lincoln stated that the primary goal of his actions as the U. President (he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his “official duty”) was that of preserving the Union. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union… [¶] I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states. Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 off-year elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites. Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. Lincoln’s comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper. For some time, Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies. For the newly freed slaves. He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed. A few days after Emancipation was announced, 13 Republican governors met at the War Governors’ Conference. They supported the president’s Proclamation, but suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army. Enlisting former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. By the spring of 1863, Lincoln was ready to recruit black troops in more than token numbers. In a letter to Andrew Johnson. The military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, “The bare sight of 50,000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once”. By the end of 1863, at Lincoln’s direction, General Lorenzo Thomas. Had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley. Once observed of Lincoln: “In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color”. Main article: Gettysburg Address. The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, some three hours before the speech. With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg. In July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots. The stage was set for his address at the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863. Defying Lincoln’s prediction that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here”, the Address became the most quoted speech in American history. In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. He defined the war as an effort dedicated to these principles of liberty and equality for all. The emancipation of slaves was now part of the national war effort. He declared that the deaths of so many brave soldiers would not be in vain, that slavery would end as a result of the losses, and the future of democracy in the world would be assured, that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. Lincoln concluded that the Civil War had a profound objective: a new birth of freedom in the nation. President Lincoln (center right) with, from left, Generals Sherman. An 1868 painting of events aboard the. Meade’s failure to capture Lee’s army as it retreated from Gettysburg, and the continued passivity of the Army of the Potomac, persuaded Lincoln that a change in command was needed. S victories at the Battle of Shiloh. And in the Vicksburg campaign. Impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army. Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, I can’t spare this man. With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops. Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was. Lincoln arranged for an intermediary to make inquiry into Grant’s political intentions, and being assured that he had none, submitted to the Senate Grant’s promotion to commander of the Union Army. He obtained Congress’s consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington. Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign. This is often characterized as a war of attrition. Given high Union losses at battles such as the Battle of the Wilderness. Even though they had the advantage of fighting on the defensive, the Confederate forces had “almost as high a percentage of casualties as the Union forces”. The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant’s plans were, to which the general replied, I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee’s army shrank with every costly battle. Grant’s army moved south, crossed the James River. And trench warfare outside Petersburg, Virginia. Lincoln then made an extended visit to Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia. This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina. Lincoln and the Republican Party mobilized support for the draft throughout the North, and replaced the Union losses. Lincoln authorized Grant to target the Confederate infrastructuresuch as plantations, railroads, and bridgeshoping to destroy the South’s morale and weaken its economic ability to continue fighting. Grant’s move to Petersburg resulted in the obstruction of three railroads between Richmond and the South. This strategy allowed Generals Sherman and Philip Sheridan. To destroy plantations and towns in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The damage caused by Sherman’s March to the Sea. Through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a 60-mile (97 km) swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies. Has argued that there was no effort to engage in total war. Against civilians which he believed did take place during World War II. Confederate general Jubal Early. Began a series of assaults in the North that threatened the Capital. During Early’s raid on Washington, D. In 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes. Shouted at him, Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot! After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched. As Grant continued to wear down Lee’s forces, efforts to discuss peace began. Confederate Vice President Stephens. Led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads. Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal; his sole objective was an agreement to end the fighting and the meetings produced no results. On April 1, 1865, Grant successfully outflanked Lee’s forces in the Battle of Five Forks. And nearly encircled Petersburg, and the Confederate government evacuated Richmond. Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen. Greeted him as a hero. On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. And the war was effectively over. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Engraved portrait of Lincoln as President. Main articles: Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln. And United States presidential election, 1864. While the war was still being waged, Lincoln faced reelection in 1864. Lincoln was a master politician, bringing togetherand holding togetherall the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats. Such as Edwin M. And Andrew Johnson as well. Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powersgreatly expanded over peacetimeto hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket. At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate. To broaden his coalition to include War Democrats as well as Republicans, Lincoln ran under the label of the new Union Party. When Grant’s 1864 spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President’s re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated. Sharing this fear, Lincoln wrote and signed a pledge that, if he should lose the election, he would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House. Please see my other listings for similar books and sets, especially the rare Manuscript Edition of Albert Beveridge’s Lincoln! Im more flexible on pricing if you are interested in purchasing several large sets. Prices have been lowered. Please consider as is. The item “ABRAHAM LINCOLN! (NICOLAY HAY)Non Leather Set First(SPONSORS EDITION!)MINT+! RARE” is in sale since Saturday, July 27, 2019. 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  • Publisher: Nicolay and Hay; Lincoln Memorial University
  • Subject: History
  • Place of Publication: Lincoln Memorial University
  • Author: Abraham Lincoln [Nicolay and Hay]
  • Topic: United States
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Origin: American
  • Special Attributes: First Edition
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Binding: Fine Binding

ABRAHAM LINCOLN! (NICOLAY HAY)Non Leather Set First(SPONSORS EDITION!)MINT+! RARE