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Author Stoddard, William O., 1835-1925.

Title Lincoln's White House secretary : the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard / edited by Harold Holzer
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 405 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Stoddard Family Tree; 2. Childhood in Rochester; 3. Boyhood in Homer; 4. The Old Garret and Other Wonders; 5. In the Village; 6. The River; 7. The Hill and the Woods; 8. The Academy and the Shop; 9. Syracuse: The Young City; 10. The Onondaga Street House; 11. Hoyt's School; 12. The Bookstore; 13. The New Garret; 14. The Church; 15. The Jerry Rescue Riot; 16. Miscellaneous; 17. Going to College; 18. College Days; 19. Junior Year; 20. Grand Prairie; Gallery; 21. Log Cabin Home; 22. Prairie Life
23. Prairie Winter24. Frontier Journalism; 25. Forward; 26. Suppers, Characters, and Incidents; 27. Lincoln and a New Beginning; 28. War; 29. A New Life in Washington; 30. The War City; 31. Guns and Things at the White House; 32. A Very Busy Year; 33. Wartime Enterprises; 34. About Mr. Lincoln; 35. The Long Winter of 1862; 36. Forward March; 37. On Assignment by the President; 38. Year of Decision, 1864; 39. Notes from the Southwest, and the Death of Lincoln; Afterword: Picturing Lincoln; Post Impressions; Notes; Index; Author Bio
Summary William Osborn Stoddard, Lincoln's "third secretary" who worked alongside John G. Nicolay and John Hay in the White House from 1861 to 1865, completed his autobiography in 1907, one of more than one hundred books he wrote. An abridged version was published by his son in 1955 as "Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard." In this new, edited version, Lincoln's White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard, Harold Holzer provides an introduction, afterword, and annotations and includes comments by Stoddard's granddaughter, Eleanor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-398) and index
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Subject Stoddard, William O., 1835-1925.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Stoddard, William O., 1835-1925 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State)
SUBJECT Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast
Stoddard, William O., 1835-1925 fast
Stoddard, William Osborn. swd
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography
Secretaries -- United States -- Biography
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Friendship
Homes
Journalists
Politics and government
Presidents -- Staff
Secretaries
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140441
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261
Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Subject New York (State)
United States
Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Holzer, Harold.
ISBN 9780809387540
0809387549
1280697660
9781280697661
9786613674623
6613674621