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[Abridged] Presidential Histories

16.E.) Lincoln, the Union Army, and the election of 1864; an interview with Jon White

May 06, 2021 Kenny Ryan
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
16.E.) Lincoln, the Union Army, and the election of 1864; an interview with Jon White
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[Abridged] Presidential Histories
16.E.) Lincoln, the Union Army, and the election of 1864; an interview with Jon White
May 06, 2021
Kenny Ryan

Six of the seven presidents who followed Lincoln served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In our final look at Honest Abe, join me as I interview Jon White, an associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and author of Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln , on Lincoln's relationship with the army and what its soldiers thought of Lincoln, the GOP, slavery, and the election of 1864.


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Six of the seven presidents who followed Lincoln served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In our final look at Honest Abe, join me as I interview Jon White, an associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and author of Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln , on Lincoln's relationship with the army and what its soldiers thought of Lincoln, the GOP, slavery, and the election of 1864.


Support the show