Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War

Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War

Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with rai…

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