The Election of 1860 Reconsidered

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The Election of 1860 Reconsidered civil war in the north Series editor, Lesely J. Gordon, University of Akron Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union John M. Belohlavek Banners South: A Northern Community at War edmund J. raus “Circumstances are destiny”: An Antebellum Woman’s Struggle to Define Sphere tina Stewart Brakebill More Than a Contest between Armies: Essays on the Civil War edited by James Marten and a. Kristen Foster August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry translated and edited by Joseph r. reinhart Meade’s Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman edited by David w. lowe Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, U.S. Consul at Bermuda, 1861–1888 edited by Glen n. wiche The Antebellum Crisis and America’s First Bohemians Mark a. lause Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer Paul taylor Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front J. Matthew Gallman A German Hurrah! Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry translated and edited by Joseph r. reinhart “They Have Left Us Here to Die”: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry edited by Glenn robins The Election of 1860 Reconsidered edited by James a. Fuller The Election of 1860 Reconsidered • edited by a. James Fuller the Kent State University Press . Kent, Ohio © 2013 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242 All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2012037934 ISBN 978-1-60635-148-2 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The election of 1860 reconsidered / edited by A. James Fuller. p. cm. — (Civil War in the North) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-60635-148-2 (hardcover) ∞ 1. Presidents—United States—Election—1860. 2. United States—Politics and government—1857–1861. I. Fuller, A. James. E440.E45 2012 324.973—dc23 2012037934 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 For the civil war Study Group ...