Book Review – Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Eaton edited by Michael J. Larson and John David Smith Review by Andrew F. Lang Amid the welter of post-Civil War reminiscences, John...
Lincoln and Emancipation
Book Review – Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War
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