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Historical person
1809–1865
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and leader of the Union during the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, supported the Thirteenth Amendment and was assassinated shortly after Confederate surrender.
In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flash for Freedom!, he becomes alternately a slave driver, prisoner and reluctant escort to the fugitive Cassy, meeting Abraham Lincoln while trying to escape both abolitionists and slaveholders. In Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full Measure, in 1864, Abraham Lincoln gives Ulysses S. Grant authority over the Union armies, and Grant begins a campaign that refuses to release pressure after each battle. Other novels featuring Abraham Lincoln include John Jakes’s On Secret Service, John Jakes’s Savannah, David Healey’s Rebel Train, Griff Hosker’s Rebel Raiders, and John Jakes’s The Titans.
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Civil War trilogy uses fictional Confederate plots to place individual agents against decisive moments of the American conflict. Rebel Fever concerns an attempt to unleash disease in Washington during the winter of 1862, while Rebel Train follows cavalrymen who seize Abraham Lincoln’s train as he travels to…
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The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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