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Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition - Hardcover

Harris, William C.

 
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Synopsis

Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), Maryland senator, and Horatio Seymour, Democratic governor of New York, were two influential opponents of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War. But unlike the Copperheads, they staunchly supported the war to suppress the rebellion. The story of these two figures of the loyal opposition by Lincoln Prizewinning author William C. Harris provides a new way of understanding critical controversies relating to the purpose of the Civil War, its conduct, emancipation, white racial opinion, loyalty, military conscription, and civil liberties.

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About the Author

William C. Harris is Professor Emeritus of History, North Carolina State University. He is the author of many books, including Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union, winner of the 2012 Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award, and Lincoln&*8217;s Rise to the Presidency, winner of the 2008 Henry Adams Prize, both published by the University of Kansas Press.

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