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"Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised the army of a million men who won the Civil...
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With profiles of Jesse James and the Outlaws, reviews of the California Gold Rush, and the Battle of Little Bighorn, this informative guide takes an in-depth look at the people, places, and events that played a role in developing the Old West and American Frontier, complete with maps, period photos, and illustrations. --Publisher's description.
Read about the Old West and its people.