Published 2018 by Prometheus Books
The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln: A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges. Copyright © 2018 by David Alan Johnson. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Johnson, David, 1950- author.
Title: The last weeks of Abraham Lincoln : A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges / by David Alan Johnson.
Description: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018019523 (print) | LCCN 2018044028 (ebook) | ISBN 9781633883987 (ebook) | ISBN 9781633883970 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Chronology. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination. | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Peace--Chronology.
Classification: LCC E457.45 (ebook) | LCC E457.45 .J64 2018 (print) | DDC 973.7092 [B] --dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019523
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