Rabu, 08 November 2017

ACW Book Review: The Siege of Washington

The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union  by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood, Oxford University Press, 2011, $27.95  HORATIO TAFT, A U.S. PATENT OFFICE employee, often took his children to play at the White House with Abraham Lincoln’s youngest boys. But Taft’s diary entry for April 20, …

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