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Lincoln and the tools of war /

First published in 1956, this is an account of the arming of the Union forces in the Civil War, and of Lincoln's part in it, showing Lincoln in a new and engaging light. Lincoln was determined to win the war, yet his generals seemed unable to give him a victory, so he reasoned that Yankee ingen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bruce, Robert V.
Otros Autores: Thomas, Benjamin Platt, 1902-1956 (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Papamoa Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Captain Dahlgren --  |t General Ripley --  |t Men without guns --  |t No time for novelties --  |t Inventors in the White House --  |t Ramsay and the arsenal --  |t Bureaucrats and breechloaders --  |t The coffee-mill gun --  |t Lincoln's field artillery --  |t Patent nonsense --  |t The Trent affair --  |t Winter of discontent --  |t An encounter at Hampton Roads --  |t The president perseveres --  |t Trial by combat --  |t Admiral Dahlgren --  |t Gunning for Charleston --  |t Ripley's last stand --  |t Farewell to arms --  |t A peal of ordnance. 
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