The Centennial History of Illinois - Vol. Three - The Era of the Civil War 1848-1870


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Centennial History Of Illinois - By A. C. Cole - THE TABLE OF CONTENTS -....... PASSING OFTHE FRONTIER COMING OF THE RAILROADS ...... 111 . AGITATION AND COMPROMISE. 1848-1852 .... IV . PRAIRIE FARMING AND BANKING ...... V . THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT . ....... V1 . THE ORIGIN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ... V1 I . THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES ...... V111 . THE ELECTION OF 1860 TX . THE GROWING PAINS OF SOCIETY ...... X . CHURCH AND SCHOOL. 1850-1 860 ...... XI . THE APPEAL TO ARMS .......... XII. RECRUITIC GROUXD AND BATTLEFIELD .... ABOLITIOKISTS .......... XIII . THE NEW XIV . THE REELECTIOX OF LINCOLB ....... XV . POPULATION IN WARTIME XVI . THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 186-1870 ... XVEE . AGRICULTURE AKD THE COPPGRHEMS . ......... ........ . 1867-1870 ... AND THE WAR AND THE MILITARY XIX . THE SPOILS AND THE SPOILIIRS. MORALITY. AND EDUCATION. XVIII . RECONSTRUCTION XX . RELIGION. POLITICIAN XXI . PLAY AND THE PRESS.........







The Borderland in the Civil War


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The author surveys the effects of the war on the southern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the Trans-Allegheny portion of Virginia, and most of Kentucky and Missouri during the Lincoln administration. The narrative opens with a discussion of the 1860 election and a proposition that the borderland acted as a mediator during the possible compromises that followed. Although many of the borderland's inhabitants were Southern in origin, the region generally held fast to strong Union sentiment. The people of the borderland felt that Lincoln understood them and their way of life. On the issue of slavery, they agreed to stand united no matter which way the tide turned.







Books of 1912-


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