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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

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Master Olaf – 1-2
At Night – 1-2
Contrasts – 2-3
Pearl Winners – 3
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Reminiscences of a Visit to the “Great Eastern,” by Our Artist, July 28, 1860 – 6-7
The Prince of Wales’ Visit to America – 8
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 8-10
Domestic Intelligence – 11
Foreign News – 11-12
Our Newport Correspondence – 13-16
A Ride for a Day – 16-17
My Daughter Minnie – 18
Damascus and the Holy War – 19-22
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XLI-XLIII – 22-24
A Memory of the Mumps – 24

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Abraham Lincoln was photographed on this day.

The last beardless photograph of Lincoln.[62] John M. Read commissioned Philadelphia artist John Henry Brown to paint a good-looking miniature of Lincoln "whether or not the subject justified it". This ambrotype is one of six taken on Monday, August 13, 1860, in Butler's daguerreotype studio (of which only two survive), made for the portrait painter.

List of Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

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Horace Greeley to James S. Pike, August 13, 1860

NEW YORK, August 13, 1860.

FRIEND PIKE: I very cheerfully contribute this $20 toward the Maine election fund, providing that you will see it honestly expended. I don't trust the average run of Maine politicians, who are thievish (even the priests) and beggarly (even the leading editors). They are a poor lot, and will swallow all the funds they can get hold of.

I did not know nor suspect what Dana's opinion was on the point in dispute, but I consider him a better judge than Old Buck or Cushing.

I shall be greatly disappointed as well as grieved if you lose your district. Think of Frank Blair, and be ashamed of your doubts and quickened in your works.

Yours,

HORACE GREELEY.

JAMES S. PIKE, Esq., Calais, Maine.

SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 52

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Continued from August 3 (reply #5)

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Continued from August 8 (reply #6).

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Continued from August 8 (reply #7).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

* Mr. Strong got his name in the New York Times today. See page 4 of today’s other post.