Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri - Balancing Freedom and Security

Informationen zum Autor Dennis K. Boman is the author of Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor and Abiel Leonard: Yankee Slaveholder, Eminent Jurist, and Passionate Unionist. He is the assistant director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law at the Saint Louis University Law School. Klappentext During the Civil War, Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored the Confederacy. Many residents joined a Confederate state militia, became pro-Confederate guerrillas, or helped the cause of the South in some subversive manner. In this intriguing study, Dennis K. Boman reveals the difficulties that the president, military officials, and state authorities faced in trying to curb traitorous activity while upholding the spirit of the United States Constitution

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• Authors: Dennis K Boman, Dennis K. Boman
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780807136935
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3693-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries