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Authors: Stephen B. Oates

Lincoln's relationship with

on Lincoln's secretiveness

malicious gossip about

marriage of

shopping expeditions of

suicide attempt of

wardrobe nightmare of

Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (mother)
n

death of

illegitimacy of

Lincoln, Robert (son)

Lincoln, Tad (son)

death of

Lincoln, Thomas (father)

Herndon's views on

son estranged from

Lincoln, Willie (son)

Lincoln assassination

aftermath of

conspiracy theories of

Lincoln's critics chastened by

military trial after

myths about

as prototype

see also
Booth, John Wilkes; Ford's Theater

Lincoln Conspiracy, The
(motion picture)

Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln myth

countermyths and

reconstruction and

two traditions of

Look Out, Whitey!
(Lester)

Los Angeles
Times

Louisiana:

all-white government in

reconstruction in

Lovejoy, Owen

Lynch, Joseph

 

McClellan, George B.

peninsula campaign of

McClure, Alexander

McDowell, Irvin

Madison, James

Magruder, John Bankhead

Manassas Junction, Va.:

McClellan at

see also
Bull Run

Mary Lincoln, Biography of a Marriage
(Randall)

Mary Todd Lincoln, Her Life and Letters
(Turner and Turner)

Masters, Edgar Lee

Meade, George Gordon

Meriwether, Elizabeth Avery

Meserve, Dorothy

Mexican War

Mexico, Republic of

Missouri, in Union

“Mortality” (Knox)

Mudd, Samuel A.

myth:

Frye on

functions of

history vs.

truth of

see also
Lincoln myth

 

National Intelligencer
, Booth's letter to

New York
Herald

New York
World

Nicholas I, Czar of Russia

North Carolina

 

O'Laughlin, Michael

trial and sentence of

Our American Cousin
(English comedy)

Owens, Mary

 

pardons

Parker, John

Petersen, William

Petersen House (Washington, D.C.)

Philadelphia
North American

Phillips, Wendell

Poore, Benjamin Perley

Pope, John

Powell, Lewis T.

apprehension of

death sentence of

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

property, confiscation of

 

Quarles, Benjamin

 

Randall, Ruth Painter

Rathbone, Henry

reconstruction

army's role in

Lincoln myth and

Lincoln's evolving approach to

Lincoln's views on, at war's end

military governors in

radical views on

southern Unionists in

ten percent plan in

voting limitations in

Republicans, advanced

conspiracy theory of assassination and

as “radicals,”

reconstruction and

Republicans, Republican party

conservative

in election of 1858

in election of 1860

in election of 1862

in election of 1864

emergence of

Jeffersonian heritage of

Lincoln's joining of

moderate

radical, as misnomer,
see also
Republicans, advanced

Thirteenth Amendment and

vision of

as warmongering abolitionists

revolution, in Western world (1820s to 1840s)

Richmond, Va., McClellan's march toward

Rosecrans, William S. (“Old Rosey”)

Russia, czarist

Lincoln legend in

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis

Rutledge, Ann, and Lincoln

 

Sandburg, Carl

secession

Secret Service, U.S., search for Booth and

segregation

Lincoln as proponent of

in Union forces

self-improvement, right of

Senate, U.S.

advanced Republicans in

Lincoln's ambitions for

Vardaman in

Seward, William H.

attempted assassination of

Sherman, Stuart

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Sherwood, Robert E.

slaveowners, compensation of

slaves, slavery

fugitive

as gradually dying out

as inflammable issue

Kansas-Nebraska Act and

Lincoln's hands-off policy toward

Lincoln's hatred of

Lincoln viewed as unopposed to

moral contradiction of

rebellions of

see also
emancipation; Emancipation Proclamation

Smith, Lydia

South, southerners

elimination of ruling class of

Lincoln-as-demon view of

Lincoln embraced by

Lincoln's election as viewed by

Lincoln's views on

people vs. politicians in

Unionists in

see also
Confederacy

Spangler, Edman

Speed, James

Speed, Joshua

Springfield Young Men's Lyceum, Lincoln's speech at

Stanton, Edwin M.

assassination conspiracy theory and

background of

Booth's personal effects and

death of

Lincoln's correspondence with

Lincoln's reliance on

Lincoln's security and

search for Booth and

states' rights, Lincoln's views on

Stevens, Thaddeus

reconstruction and

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Sumner, Charles

background and personality of

reconstruction and

slave policy influenced by

Supreme Court, U.S.

slavery issue and

Surratt, John

Surratt, Mary

Swett, Leonard

 

Taney, Roger B.

Tanner, James

Tennessee:

occupation of

Union army in

There Is a River
(Harding)

They've Shot Lincoln!
(television show)

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas, George (“Old Pap”)

Todd, Mary,
see
Lincoln, Mary Todd

Tolstoy, Leo

truth:

biographical

mythical vs. historical

Turner, Henry M.

Turner, Justin and Linda

Turner, Nat

Turner, Thomas Reed

 

Union army

blacks in

Confederate army compared to

Grand Plan of

military arrests of

military strategy of

problems of

in reconstruction

scorched-earth warfare of

Unionism, Union:

slave states in

southern

 

Vallandigham, Clement L., arrest of

Vardaman, James K.

Vicksburg, Grant's capture of (1863)

Vidal, Gore

Virginia:

Army of the Potomac in

Union cavalry in

voting rights

Lincoln's restriction of

in reconstruction

 

Wade, Benjamin F.

prejudice of

wages:

apprenticeship plan vs.

unequal

War Department, U.S.

Booth's body released by

Washington, D.C.:

defense of

“Georgia pen” in

Petersen House in

see also
Ford's Theater

Washington, George

Washington Arsenal

Washington Metropolitan Police Force

Weems, Parson

Weichmann, Louis J.

welfare, of freedmen

Welles, Gideon

Welles, Mary Jane

Whigs, Whig party

Whitman, Walt

Wilson, Edmund

With Malice Toward None
(Oates)

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BOUT THE AUTHOR

STEPHEN B. OATES
is a professional biographer and the author of the Civil War Quartet, comprising biographies of Nat Turner, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr., tragically doomed men who sought different solutions to the central problem of the American Republic—the problem of slavery and racial oppression. Mr. Oates'
With Malice Toward None
, hailed as the best one-volume life of Lincoln, won a Christopher Award for outstanding literature and the Barondess/Lincoln Award of the New York Civil War Round Table. His
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
also won a Christopher Award, plus the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. Mr. Oates has published eight other books and more than sixty essays and shorter biographical studies. An elected member of the Society of American Historians, he has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and a Senior Summer Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses in the Civil War era and a nationally recognized seminar in the art and technique of biography.

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THER BOOKS BY

Books by Stephen B. Oates

William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist

Biography as High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art

Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths

THE CIVIL WAR QUARTET
:

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown

Our Fiery Trial

Portrait of America (2 volumes)

Visions of Glory

Rip Ford's Texas

Confederate Cavalry West of the River

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
:
The Man Behind the Myths
. Copyright © 1984 by Stephen B. Oates. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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