William H Townsend: 1 book
Lincoln and the Bluegrass
Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
THE BLUEGRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY was the only part of the slaveholding South that Abraham Lincoln knew intimately. Even before the young Illinois lawyer had married a daughter of one of Lexington’s leading statesmen, he had taken Robert Todd’s close friend, Henry Clay, as his political idol. Mary...
