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Richmond's Reaction To Abraham Lincoln : From November 1860 - March 1881, James Alexander Deangelis
Richmond's Reaction To Abraham Lincoln : From November 1860 - March 1881, James Alexander Deangelis
Master's Theses
I have endeavored to give an account of Richmond's reaction to Abraham Lincoln from his election in November, 1860, to his inauguration on March 4, 1861. I have also tried to emphasize the reaction in Richmond because it represented not only the attitude in Virginia but in many respects the upper South as a whole.
The paper is divided into two principal parts, each divided into three chapters. The first area concerns the effect of Lincoln's election on the people of Richmond. This is discussed in three chapters; the first, a study of the background events leading up to the …