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The Lincoln mailbag : America writes to the President, 1861-1865

Author: Harold Holzer; Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Harold Holzer, the editor of Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, dips once again into Lincoln's bulging mailbag to assemble and annotate a volume of letters, many of them never before published, that the American people wrote to their president during the Civil War - correspondence that offered praise, criticism, advice, threats, abuse, and appeals for help and for special favors from men and women
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Genre/Form: Correspondence
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Lincoln mailbag.
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)606977294
Named Person: Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Holzer; Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 080932072X 9780809320721
OCLC Number: 37725655
Description: xxxv, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: edited by Harold Holzer.
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Harold Holzer, the editor of Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, dips once again into Lincoln's bulging mailbag to assemble and annotate a volume of letters, many of them never before published, that the American people wrote to their president during the Civil War - correspondence that offered praise, criticism, advice, threats, abuse, and appeals for help and for special favors from men and women throughout the country. Significantly, this collection may be more representative of the mood of the country at the time than Lincoln might have known; it includes letters from black Americans, originally routed to the War Department's Colored Troops Bureau, that Lincoln never saw.

The letters, of course, speak for themselves, but Holzer's introduction and annotations provide historical context for events and people described as well as for those who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America.

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