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

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-s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boman, Dennis K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, > 1798-1864
Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, > 1798-1864.
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Politics and government
Governors.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Unionistes (Guerre de Secession americaine) > Missouri > Biographies.
Gouverneurs > Missouri > Biographies.
Unionists (United States Civil War) > Missouri > Biography.
Governors > Missouri > Biography.
United States.
Missouri.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession)
Missouri > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession)
Missouri > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1865.
Missouri > Politique et gouvernement > 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Missouri > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Missouri > Politics and government > To 1865.
Missouri > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 dissented in the infamous Dred Scott decision. Revealing how Gamble, one of the wealthiest and most renowned citizens of pre-Civil War Missouri, foug.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780807148570

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