Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Stahr B) train White's cavalry raids on Point-of-Rocks

White's cavalry raids on Point-of-Rocks and Hanover Junction

shows how Lincoln's speech was initially greeted with confusion and hostility by many in the Union

compelling: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe)

Sherman was still out to destroy the South’s ability and moral stamina to make war

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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Stahr B) train White's cavalry raids on Point-of-RocksStanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr Walter Stahr, award winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincolns 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 (18141869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised