The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) Scott Mingus from alligators to white-tailed deer

from alligators to white-tailed deer

the Republicans tried coaxing officials into gradual abolition with promises of compensation and the colonization abroad of freed blacks

and significant modern conventional weapons

J L Derwart

Gettysburg Animated Map

The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) Scott Mingus from alligators to white-tailed deerby Gary Ecelbarger In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a journey with Abraham Lincoln from the last weeks of 1858 until the end of May in 1860, on the road to his unlikely Republication