Attributions

Attributions

Note: About twenty-five percent of this play is quoted directly from Benet’s epic poem about the Civil War, John Brown’s Body. The specific passages appear on the Benet page of this website.

Note: Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie Years. The War Years. and David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln are my biographical sources and are quoted or paraphrased extensively. Sandburg is used for the Lincoln anecdotes and for local color. David Donald is my principle resource for historical data. Most of my other sources are listed here. I hope I have not overlooked any.

Roy Basler, editor, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswich, NJ: Rutgers University Press 1953)

Michael Burlingham, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1994)

Walter Ehrlich, They Have No Rights (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press 1979) The Dred Scott decision is thoroughly discussed in this scholarly work. Walter Ehrlich is Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri – St. Louis. He was my high school government teacher in the St. Louis area many years ago.

William E. Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (New York: Modern Library, 1999)
Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln - Redeemer President (William B. Erdmans Publishing, 1999)
Martin Greenburg & Charles Waugh, The Price of Freedom ( Cumberland House, Nashville, 2000)
Victor Davis Hanson, The Soul of Battle (New York: Free Press, 1999)
Francis H. Kennedy, Civil War Battlefield Guide (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.1990)
John F. Marszalek, Sherman, A Soldier's Passion For Order (New York: Vintage Civil War Library)1994

Henry Mayer, All On Fire, William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (New York: St. Martin Press, 1998)
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press 1988)
McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times (Univ. of Nebraska Press 1996)

Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1926, 1939). All of my Lincoln parables and "tall tales" are found in Sandburg, as is the Bixby letter and the Philadelphia Age article.

Geoffrey C. Ward (with Rick & Ken Burns) The Civil War (New York: Alfred Knopf, Inc. 1990)

Music: "Ashokan Farewell" and other Civil War Classic by Jay Unger & Molly Mason. Used with their permission. Their website: www.ashokan.org