Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor Contributor(s): Boman, Dennis K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807131644 ISBN-13: 9780807131640 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2005027769 |
Series: Southern Biography (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.3" W x 9.26" (1.21 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Missouri - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: As provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War, Hamilton Gamble (1798--1864) worked closely with the Lincoln administration to keep the state from seceding from the Union. Without Gamble and other loyal Unionist governors, the war in the West might have been lost. Dennis Boman's full-scale account of Gamble's life tells the little-known story of a prominent frontier lawyer who became chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and boldly dissented in the infamous Dred Scott decision. Revealing how Gamble, one of the wealthiest and most renowned citizens of pre--Civil War Missouri, fought to end slavery and to protect the integrity of the Union, Lincoln's Resolute Unionist corrects prevailing notions about solidarity among the South's antebellum elite on these issues. |