Lincoln's bishop : a president, a priest, and the fate of 300 Dakota Sioux warriors /

Lincoln's bishop : a president, a priest, and the fate of 300 Dakota Sioux warriors /

In the tradition of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals comes Gustav Niebuhr's compelling history of Abraham Lincoln's decision in 1862 to spare the lives of 265 condemned Sioux men, and the Episcopal bishop who was his moral compass, helping guide the president's conscience. M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niebuhr, Gustav
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
Subjects:
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, > 1822-1901.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Relations with Dakota Indians.
Dakota Indians > Wars, 1862-1865.
Dakota Indians > Government relations > History > 19th century.
Church work with Indians > Episcopal Church > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious.
RELIGION / Ethics.

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