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The following books were researched, in part, in the McLellan Lincoln Collection at the John Hay Library:

Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1926).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005).

Douglas Wilson, Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Frank Williams, Judging Lincoln (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002).

Gabor Boritt (ed.), Lincoln’s Generals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Harold Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).

James C. McPherson, Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Jason Emerson, The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007).

John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).

John C. Waugh, Re-electing Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency (New York: Crown, 1997, 2001).

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Richard Carwardine, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Ronald C. White, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).

Tom Wheeler, Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails (New York: Collins, 2006).