Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Starr - LP) civilians but the retreat of the

but the retreat of the armies to the Potomac River and beyond has not been as thoroughly covered

at the same time

As leaders of the Democrats' northern and southern factions before the Civil War

The American Civil War is often called the first “modern war

The book also attempts to explain why Rosecrans was removed four times despite his military successes and examines the important part politics played in the war

Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Starr - LP) civilians but the retreat of theStanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr Walter Stahr, award winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincolns indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (18141869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised