This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a
Excerpt from Correspondence Between His Excellency, President Abraham Lincoln, the Hon. Simon Cameron: Secretary of War, in 1861 1. The country should be put up