Daniel W Crofts: 3 books
A Secession Crisis Enigma
William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
"The Diary of a Public Man," published anonymously in several installments in the North American Review in 1879, claimed to offer verbatim accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas -- among others -- in the desperate weeks just before the start...
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a...
Reluctant Confederates
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.
"Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina,...