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The Lincoln Herald 1980s

The Lincoln Herald is the oldest continually published scholarly journal devoted to the study of Lincoln and his era. Published by Lincoln Memorial University Press, The Lincoln Herald features original research, book reviews, historical commentary, and updates on Lincolniana in news and popular culture.

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Lincoln Herald Fall 1989 Vol. 91, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1989 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- "A Puttin' on (H)airs" by Edward Steers, Jr .
- Private Ross and the Ninety-Third New York at the Battle of the Wilderness by D. Reid Ross
- A North-South Friendship: Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H. Stephens by Waldo W. Braden
- A Texan Witnesses the First Thanksgiving Adventures in War-Time Washington by James Marten
- In the Abraham Lincoln Museum Collection by Steven M. Wilson
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Spring 1989 Vol. 91, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1989 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Manifest Destiny & The Irrepressible Conflict: Abraham Lincoln and the Imperial Origins of the American Civil War by Mark A. Lause
- A Todd Legend About the Lincolns' Romance by Waldo W. Braden
- Lincoln Witnesses A Will: A New Document by Wayne C. Temple
- Lincoln's Ancestry. A New Document by Edward Steers, Jr
- In the Abraham Lincoln Museum Collection by Steven M. Wilson
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Winter 1989 Vol. 91, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1989 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Memorial: Roy P. Basler by Gary R. Planck
- Lincoln's Bixby Letter: A Study in Authenticity by Joe Nickell
- Secretary Stanton and Congressman Bingham by Erving E. Beauregard
- If Lincoln Had Lived: Texans Reconsider Lincoln's Assassination by John Barr
- In the Abraham Lincoln Museum Collection by Steven M. Wilson
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Fall 1988 Vol. 90, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1988 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- "Dancing attendance in the anti-chambers of the great": A Texas Unionist Goes to Washington, 1863 by James Marten
- What Was Abe Lincoln Doing in Pre-War Japan? by Michael Mogilevsky
- Not So Strange Bedfellows: Thomas Ewing II and the Defense of Samuel Mudd by Lorie Ann Porter
- Romantic Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln by James Stevenson
- Faces Lincoln Knew: Photographs from the Past by Lloyd Ostendorf
- The Dred Scott Fragment: A Mystery by Don E. Fehrenbacher
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Spring 1988 Vol. 90, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1988 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- FEATURES
  - Lewis A. Armistead: "The Bravest of the Brave" by Jerry H. Maxwell
  - Profanation of the Constitution: Radical Rule, 1861-1877 by Thomas Bland Keys
  - Madness, Malingering and by Raymond G. Lande
  - The Mysterious Browning by Doris Replogle Porter
  - Lincoln News Digest
  - Publication/Playback Review
  - Print of the Edition: Advertising the "Death of Lincoln" by Harold Holzer
  - The Lincoln Tradition
Lincoln Herald Summer 1988 Vol. 90, No. 2

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1988 summer edition of the serial.

Contents
- Lincoln's Western Travel, 1859 by Waldo W Braden
- The Literature of Confederate Victory: Forays in Imaginary History by Stephen Davis
- Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; March 4, 1865-A Study by Louis Wm. Doll
- His More Distant Hero: Horace Porter and Abraham Linco by Richard Henry Owens
- The Poetic Image of Abraham Lincoln by James Stevenson
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Winter 1988 Vol. 90, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1988 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- The American Voyages of Abraham Lincoln and Huckleberry Finn by James A. Stevenson
- Willie Pegram: "That Damned Little Man With The Specs" by Jerry H. Maxwell
- Lincoln and Garibaldi by Clay W Stuckey
- "Thrilling Words" or "Silly Remarks:”
- What The Press Said About The Gettysburg Address by Harold Holzer
- A Sober Look at the Temperance Address by Oliver Fraysse
- In the Abraham Lincoln Museum Collection by Steven M. Wilson
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Fall 1987 Vol. 89, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1987 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Editorial
  - Editorial on Don Phillips' Part II Article on "Abraham Lincoln-The Manager." " Dealing with Severe and Unjust Criticism" in Lincoln Herald, Spring 1987.
- Articles
  - Eyewitness to History: Newton Ferree, the Lincoln Assassination and the Close of the Civil War in Washington By John K. Lattimer and Terry Alford
  - LINCOLN'S IMMORTALITY By John A. Lloyd
  - THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF TWO CONFEDERATE AGENTS IN NEW YORK By Joseph George, Jr.
  - Lincoln in the 1850s: Freedom and Responsibility By David Hein
  - Never Defeated Yet Edited by Paul Kallina
- Features
  - LINCOLN RELATED ORGANIZATIONS 1987 By Gary R. Planck
  - A Review of TELL MOTHER I DIED FOR MY COUNTRY By David Llewellyn Dodds
  - Lincoln News Digest By GARY R. PLANCK, Literary Editor
  - Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Spring 1987 Vol. 89, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1987 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - "I Miss The Cannon's Roar" : Letters of a Pennsylvania Surgeon in the Second Bull Run Campaign, August-September 1862 Edited by Edward G. Longacre
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part X His Final Years By Joseph E. Suppiger
  - White Nationalism and Abolitionism: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner By Ronald Briley
  - The Case of Jacob Walter By Alfred Isacsson
  - Abraham Lincoln-The Manager, Part II: Dealing With Severe and Unjust Criticism, How Lincoln Did It By Don Phillips
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest By Gary R. Planck, Literary Editor
  - Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Summer 1987 Vol. 89, No. 2

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1987 summer edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Abraham Lincoln of Pennsylvania (1736-1806) And The Bill of Rights By Richard Colby
  - Abraham Lincoln-The Manager, Part III With Malice Toward None By Don Phillips
  - Abraham Lincoln's "Little Engine”: His Political Speaking, 1854-1860 - Part II By Waldo W. Braden
  - Brigadier General Patrick Henry Jones By Mark H. Dunkelnum
  - Where Did Winfield Scott Find His Anaconda? By John F. Marszalek
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest By Gary R. Planck
  - Publication/Playback Review
Lincoln Herald Winter 1987 Vol. 89, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1987 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- A Lincoln Day Without A Lincoln by Joseph Gallagher
- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address-A Study by Louis William Doll
- Lincoln's Duel by Thomas O. Jewett
- The Chief Prosecutor of the Lincoln Conspirators by Erving E. Beauregard
- The Predominant Cause of the Civil War Reconsidered: A Retrospective Essay by James Smallwood
- A Sermon Lincoln Heard: P.D. Gurley’s “Man’s Projects and God's Results" by David Hein
- Lincoln News Digest
- Publication/Playback Review
- The Lincoln Tradition
Lincoln Herald Fall 1986 Vol. 88, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1986 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Abraham Lincoln-The Manager by Don Phillips
  - Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Wood by Marian Hubbard
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part VIII In Texas and Louisiana by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Let Us Burn No More Daylight, Part III by J.F. Von Deck
  - Educating a President: Abraham Lincoln and Learning, 1809-1854 by H. Draper Hunt
  - Lincoln the President: Learner and Mentor, 1854-1865 by H. Draper Hunt
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Spring 1986 Vol. 88, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1986 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - An Historic Tennessee Homecoming '86 by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Forgotten Heroes: Black Recipients of the United States Congressional Medal of honor in the American Civil War, 1863-1865, Part II by William C. Stark
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part VI Cedar Creek to Five Forks by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Let Us Burn No More Daylight, Part I by Joseph F. von Deck
  - Lincoln and His Cabinet by Ed Wilhite
- Features
  - Book / Record Reviews
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
Lincoln Herald Summer 1986 Vol. 88, No. 2

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1986 summer edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Guest Editorial: Lincoln Trade Books and Their Publisher: Some Advice by John K. Lattimer
  - Tom Green: The Forrest of the Trans Mississippi by Alwyn Barr
  - Let Us Bum No More Daylight Part II by J.F. von Deck
  - Dr. Abraham Lincoln by W. Emerson Reck
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part VII At Appomattox by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - The lmagemakers: Abraham Lincoln and The Republican Press in 1860 by Edwin Schoell
  - Forgotten Heroes: Black Recipients of the United States Congressional Medal of honor in the American Civil War, 1863-1865, Part III by William C. Stark
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Winter 1986 Vol. 88, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1986 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - The Six-Hour War of Samuel B. Arnold By Percy E. Martin
  - President Lincoln's First Vice: Hannibal Hamlin of Maine* By H. Draper Hunt
  - JOHN H. SURRATT - SOME NEW VIEWS AND MATERIALS By Alfred Isacsson
  - SHERIDAN, THE LIFE OF A GENERAL PART IX INDIANS AND ARISTOCRATS By Joseph E. Suppiger
  - COTTON, LARD AND REBELS: JAMES OSBORN PUTNAM AS LINCOLN'S LE HAVRE CONSUL By Neill Fred Sanders
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R. Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book/Record Review
Lincoln Herald Fall 1985 Vol. 87, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1985 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Is This Of Your Own Free Will and Accord by R. V. Havlik
  - Chicago 1860: A Mason's Wigwam? by Oliver Fraysse
  - A Kentucky Yankee's Story of Fort Donelson by Robert I. Newsome, Jr
  - "Fairness, and Fairness Only'' Lincoln's Appointment of James O. Putnam as Consul at Le Havre by Neill F. Sanders
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part IV by Joseph E. Suppiger
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Spring 1985 Vol. 87, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1985 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Railsplitter on the Boards: The Lincoln of Drama by William J. McGill
  - Lincoln and the Adams Family by Patricia Ann Owens
  - Sheridan, the Life of a General Part II: His War in the West by Joseph E. Suppiger
- Features
  - Print of the Edition by Harold Holzer
  - Book/ Record Reviews
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R. Planck, Literary Editor
Lincoln Herald Summer 1985 Vol. 87, No. 2

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1985 summer edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - The Lasting Qualities of the Gettysburg Address by Waldo W. Braden
  - Abraham Lincoln, Governor William H. Bissell and Perjury: The Illinois Campaign of 1856 by Robert P. Howard
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General Part III, With the Army of the Cumberland by Joseph E. Suppiger
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Winter 1985 Vol. 87, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1985 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - The Ten Who Sat in the Front Rown on the Platform During the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg by Frank L. Klement
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General, Part V In the Valley by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Forgotten Heroes: Black Recipients of the United States Congressional Medal of honor in the American Civil War, 1863-1865, Part I by William C. Stark
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Fall 1984 Vol. 86, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1984 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - The Tokyo Lincoln Center at Meisei University by Mitsuo Kodama, President of Meisei University
  - The Pragmatic Lincoln: A Historiographical Assessment of his Western Policy by Samuel E. Bell and James M. Smallwood
  - Jefferson Davis and Southern Opinion Change 1861-1865, As Seen Through Twelves Diaries by Amy A. Roberson
  - Boston Corbett: A Final Chapter? by Grace Stageberg Swenson
  - Sheridan, The Life of a General Part I, The Wild Irish Boy by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Infidel? An Historiographical Essay by John Derge
  - Lincoln and Christ Parallels Striking similarities between the man from Illinois and the Man from Nazareth by Lloyd Ostendorf
  - The Legacy of Father Abraham From a Lincoln Day Sermon by Dr. Clyde Dodder
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Spring 1984 Vol. 86, No. 1

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1984 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Research on Lincoln's Religious Beliefs and Practices: A Bibliographical Essay By David Hein
  - Abraham Lincoln: Western Star Over Connecticut, Part IV By Nelson R. Burr
  - John Brown Saint or Madman? By William W. Hassler
  - Major General Darius N. Couch: A Civil War Profile By William F. Hanna
  - In Memory Of Virtue: A Study of Illinoians' Designs For The Lincoln Tomb By Douglas G. Campbell
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Summer 1984 Vol. 86, No. 2

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1984 summer edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Confederate Leadership And Defeat in The West By William Eric Jamborsky
  - Abraham Lincoln: Western Star Over Connecticut, Part V; The Last Battle: 1864 By Nelson R. Bur
  - War Within and Without: A Study of the Black Man's Role in the American Civil War By Westmore Peyton
  - Lincoln's Position on Black Enlistments By Howard C. Westwood
  - Did Currier & Ives Pirate A Lincoln Emancipation Print? By Harold Holzer
  - Faces Lincoln Knew .. . Photographs from the Past By Lloyd Ostendorf
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Winter 1984 Vol. 86, No. 4

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1984 winter edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - "Kindly Let Me Be Silent": A Reluctant Lincoln by Waldo W. Braden
  - The Tragedy of Major Rathbone by W. Emerson Reck
  - Some Observations on Lincoln Anniversaries by Kenneth A . Bernard
  - President Lincoln's Car by Raymond Borchers
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Fall 1983 Vol. 85, No. 3

Joseph E. Suppiger

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1983 fall edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - The United States General Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio; 1862-1865 by William C. Stark
  - Abraham Lincoln: Western Star Over Connecticut Part II by Nelson R. Burr
  - The Intimate Lincoln Part XI The Sixteenth President, 1863-1864 by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Lincoln's Delivery by Waldo W. Braden
  - The Lincoln Image - Then And Now by Robert L. Bloom
  - Abraham Lincoln's Faith by Earl C. Kubicek
  - The Gentle Lincoln Art by Sharon Walker
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book / Record Reviews
Lincoln Herald Spring 1983 Vol. 85, No. 1

Edgar C. Archer

The Lincoln Herald is one of the longest running publications about Lincoln and the Civil War. Incorporating Historical Research and Scholarship on the WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

This is a digital scan of the 1983 spring edition of the serial.

Table of Contents
- Articles
  - Lincoln and Political Decision-Making by David Hein
  - The Intimate Lincoln Part IX The Making of a New President by Joseph E. Suppiger
  - Abraham Lincoln: Western Star Over Connecticut, Part I ; The Night Express To New York by Nelson R. Burr
  - The Lincoln Sculptures of William Zorach by John David Smith . .
  - The Puzzle of the First Southern Printing of the Emancipation Proclamation by James Gilreath
- Features
  - Lincoln News Digest by Gary R . Planck, Literary Editor
  - Book I Record Reviews