The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) Scott Mingus the battlefields

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from alligators to white-tailed deer

Release date: January 1997

J L Derwart

It tells the story of his military successes and the important results that led to the Union victory in the Civil War: winning the first major campaign of the war in West Virginia in 1861

The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) Scott Mingus the battlefieldsby 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