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Title The Lincoln mailbag : America writes to the President, 1861-1865 / edited by Harold Holzer
Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 236 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary "As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day--correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races who wanted to share their views with him. Here, and in his critically acclaimed volume Dear Mr. Lincoln, editor Harold Holzer has rescued these voices--sometimes eloquent, occasionally angry, at times poetic--from the obscurity of the archives of the Civil War. The Lincoln Mailbag includes letters written by African Americans, which Lincoln never saw, revealing to readers a more accurate representation of the nation's mood than even the president knew. This first paperback edition of The Lincoln Mailbag includes a new index and fourteen illustrations, and Holzer's introduction and annotations provide historical context for the events described and the people who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America."--EBSCO
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Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast
Subject HISTORY.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Publieke opinie.
Sociale situatie.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140277
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Holzer, Harold
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
LC no. 97042164
ISBN 0585031452
9780585031453
0809388103
9780809388103