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Some called it outright murder

After sketching the background of the Gettysburg campaign and recounting the events immediately preceding the battle

by John Avlon

The Union Assaults at Vicksburg is the first comprehensive account of this quick attempt to capture Vicksburg

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival (Walter Stahr - LP) Gettysburg And what exactly is aSalmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival by Walter Stahr Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincolns for the Republican nomination in 1860but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading