Lincoln before Washington: the president-elect and the crisis of secession : [typescript] ; 2011 Apr. 16. / by Harold Holzer

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Lincoln before Washington: the president-elect and the crisis of secession : [typescript] ; 2011 Apr. 16. / by Harold Holzer

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Keynote address by Harold Holzer, presented 16 Apr. 2011 at the 75th annual meeting of the South Caroliniana Society in Columbia, S.C., re Abraham Lincoln's "long, lonely, four-month wait... in Springfield, Illinois," and his travel from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C. (with stops along the way in the state capitals of Indiana, Ohio, New York and New Jersey) during early days of the secession crisis, a trip he began 11 Feb. 1861, timed to arrive for his inauguration, 4 Mar. 1861.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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