Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor

by Dennis K. Boman

As provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War, Hamilton Gamble (1798--1864) worked closely with the Lincoln administration to keep the state from seceding from the Union. Without Gamble and other loyal Unionist governors, the war in the West might have been lost. Dennis Boman's full-scale account of Gamble's life tells the little-known story of a prominent frontier lawyer who became chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and boldly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131644
• ISBN13: 9780807131640
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"