Lincoln And The Civil War
By (Author) John Hay
Hachette Books
Da Capo Press Inc
22nd August 1988
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
Civil wars
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
973.70924
Paperback
370
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay
A unique document by an extraordinary man about one of the giants of American history, this edition features a new foreword by Henry Steele Commager, who sheds new light on the Lincoln-Hay relationship.
John Milton Hay (1838-1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government spanned nearly half a century. He started as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln and later became Secretary of State for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.