Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
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The White House, New Year's Day, 1858 -- The death of Jefferson Davis -- The White House, early 1858: one year of Dred Scott -- Colonel Robert E. Lee leaves the military forever -- The White House, February 1858: showdown with Stephen Douglas -- Honest Abe and the little giant: the Lincoln-Douglas debates, part one -- The White House, July 1858 -- Honest Abe and the little giant: the Lincoln-Douglas debates, part two -- The White House, autumn 1858: the Forney feud -- Oberlin, Ohio: the rescuers -- The White House, October 1858 -- William Seward: the "irrepressible conflict: -- The White House, Election Day -- William Tecumseh Sherman: dead-ended -- The White House, winter 1858: swashbuckling in the Americas -- Terrible swift sword: John Brown's Christmas raid into Missouri -- The White House, December 1858.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.
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1858.
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1858.
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Eighteen fifty-eight
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Generals-- Southern States, Biography.
Generals-- United States, Biography.
Politicians-- Southern States, Biography.
Politicians-- United States, Biography.
Secession-- Southern States.
Generals.
Politicians.
Politics and government
Secession.
War-- Causes.
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Southern States, Politics and government, 1775-1865.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.
United States, Politics and government, 1857-1861.