Lincoln and the Civil War

Acknowledgments

133 acknowledgments As I worked on this volume and various other Lincoln books over the past quarter century, I have been the beneficiary of support from so many generous patrons, hospitable friends and family, helpful librarians , and fellow scholars that I hesitate to mention them by name lest I inadvertently omit some. I cannot refrain, however, from thanking my better-half-to-be, the lovely and long-suffering Lois Erickson McDonald, who over the past two decades has been an unflagging source of support and love, without which I could not have written this book and the others. As both an undergraduate and a graduate student, I had the good fortune to work under an eminent Lincolnian, the late David Herbert Donald. If he had been a medievalist, I probably would have specialized in the history of the Middle Ages. At Southern Illinois University Press, which has published several of my collections of Lincoln-related primary source materials, I am especially grateful to Sylvia Frank Rodrigue and her colleagues. ...