The Union War (Gary W. Gallagher - UA) Atkinson Larry Tagg’s The Battles that

Larry Tagg’s The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln is the first study of its kind to concentrate on what Lincoln’s contemporaries thought of him during his lifetime

let there always be patriotic citizenry for whom it is their right

Her work tackles some of these well-worn assumptions

gaining the victory without which Abraham Lincoln said the nation could scarcely have lived over

The Union War (Gary W. Gallagher - UA) Atkinson Larry Tagg’s The Battles thatby Gary Gallagher Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil Warby its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary