Abraham Lincoln is often lauded as one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States of America.
Hardgrave hopes to prompt readers into their own research by providing them with facts, using a minimum of biased opinion, regarding the Constitutional Violations of the Lincoln administration..
Through this book, Dr.
Civil Coercion: The Constitutional Violations of the Lincoln Administration (1861-1865) is the result of his inquiries into the official records, accounts, speeches, and other publications.
Hardgrave on his quest for more detail and more realistic answers.
He found himself asking the following questions: How could President Lincoln promise to preserve the integrity of the States in his first Inaugural Address and invade Maryland less than two months later? If the war was about abolishing slavery, why was General Grant\'s wife a slave-holder during the war? If John Wilkes Booth was simply a pro-slavery Southern sympathizer, why did he yell, Sic Semper Tyrannis, after shooting President Lincoln instead of Slavery Forever or Dixie Forever or something similar? If President Lincoln actually preserved the Union, why did the States have to be re-admitted to the Union during Reconstruction? It is those inconsistencies that led Dr.
Hardgrave began to discover inconsistencies in the traditional historical narrative surrounding the Civil War.
As a young adult, Dr.
Terry Hardgrave has a long-held family interest in the principles and preservation of Constitutional republics.
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Having deep family roots in the United States, traceable to colonial times, author Dr.
His involvement in the Civil War and the abolition of slavery have led to the reverence of his name.
Abraham Lincoln is often lauded as one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States of America
