Title |
Lincoln's forgotten friend, Leonard Swett / Robert S. Eckley |
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Publisher |
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012 |
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Phys Descr |
xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index |
Contents |
A wandering youth -- The road to Mount Pulaski -- The great triumvirate of the Eighth Judicial Circuit -- Politics overtakes the law -- From the Wigwam to Washington -- And the war came -- Witness to the emancipation -- Quicksilver and New Almaden -- This terrible war -- A strategic decision -- Legal advocate and civic leader -- The better angels of our nature |
Subject |
Swett, Leonard, 1825-1889
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates
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Lawyers -- Illinois -- Biography
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Bloomington (Ill.) -- Biography
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OCLC # |
775419696 |
ISBN # |
9780809332052 |
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0809332051 |
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9780809332069 |
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080933206X |
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