Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War

by James R. Gilmore

Book Overview

In 1864, America was more than weary of the bloody civil war. At that moment, James R. Gilmore made a suggestion to Abraham Lincoln to take to Confederate President Jefferson Davis a set of accords by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811702618
• ISBN13: 9780811702614
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and fast-paced

The author, a sometimes writer for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, describes his efforts to help the Union cause during the Civil War. As the title suggests, there is more Gilmore than Lincoln in the book, but Lincoln frequently appears, and Gilmore's own activities, such as defending the Tribune building during the draft riots or eliciting Jefferson Davis' conditions for peace on Lincoln's behalf, are well and entertainingly told. Gilmore's style is that of today's journalists, easy to read and without wasted words.