, his Outstanding New book, gathering dissemination, we come to know a new team of lincoln allies. We are likely familiar with names like gates, andrews and some others. But steve brings another analysis of the nearly five dozen individuals who served as chief executive during lincolns presidency. This nearly 500 page volume is supplemented with 122 pages of footnotes and nearly a 70 page bibliography. For those of you who can read in the program a little bit about steve but for those watching, let me say that Stephen Engle is the professor of history and director of alan b. Larkins symposium on the american presidency at Florida Atlantic university. He is a past fulbright scholar to germany. He is currently a distinguished lecture for the organization of american historians. In 2016, he was awarded a Andrew Mellon fellowship to the massachusetts historical society. The incoming president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Associate Professor john white whose opinion carries a lot more ,
Written several books and several articles, and ive heard him talk on the treason in the civil war about merriman. In fact, last night i watched him on cspan going over with his class this topic. It was really fun. It was neat to see how he interacted with the students and brought out in them a different opinion of what they had when they first came in, how they learned something from the discussion. And it was fun. And in particular, one of the questions one of the girls asked, with all the interests in merrimans rights, what about the gross treason of the whole situation . It seems like were looking at a little tiny speck, and the whole civil war was treason. So how he dealt with that was pretty good. And he has another book out thats this book. And he has another book out, the one hes going to be talking about today, and im looking forward to hearing about it. The first book is treason, Abraham Lincoln and treason in the civil war. Its about the merriman trial, and about what he did
Emancipation. Next, Jonathan White oargues tht is not necessarily the case. Changes in the military command structure helped engender overwhelming numbers in favor of lincoln. This is part after symposium on the 1864 symposium hosted on the Lincoln Group of d. C. Well, youre in for a treat. Jonathan white, assistant professor of american studies at Christopher Newport university has written several books and several articles, and ive heard him talk on the treason in the civil war about merriman. In fact, last night i watched him on cspan going over with his class this topic. It was really fun. It was neat to see how he interacted with the students and brought out in them a different opinion of what they had when they first came in, how they learned something from the discussion. And it was fun. And in particular, one of the questions one of the girls asked, with all the interests in merrimans rights, what about the gross treason of the whole situation . It seems like were looking at a
Was sitting up on the hill and when he saw that happen, he knew he had lost the battle. Without the navy, without the ships to take his army south, there was no point in going on any longer. And so he recalled the army, and the next day they left. And they went back to canada. And the battle was over. He planned to come and fight again in the spring, but, of course, the treaty happened in between and the soldiers, the red coated soldiers were never seen again here in the United States. Abraham lincoln won reelection over Union General George Mcclellan in 1864 with more than 70 of the soldier vote. Some historians have argued that lincolns strong support from soldiers indicated that the troops also agreed with lincolns Greater Mission of emancipation. Next, author and professor Jonathan White argues that was not necessarily the case. Professor white says changes in the military command structure and the weeding of mcclellan backers helped engender such overwhelming numbers on the part o