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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 4B



51. Edmund G. Ross, “Political Leaders of the Reconstruction Period,” Forum (October 1895): 218-34.


Series of brief sketches of more than two dozen political figures who played a prominent role in Reconstruction, beginning with Abraham Lincoln and including Andrew Johnson, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, John Sherman, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, William Pitt Fessenden, Reverdy Johnson, Lyman Trumbull, Oliver P. Morton, Thomas A. Hendricks, James W. Grimes, Zachariah Chandler, James R. Doolittle, Edgar Cowan, George F. Edmunds, Roscoe Conkling, Thomas F. Bayard, John B. Henderson, Garrett Davis, Joseph S. Fowler, Peter G. Van Winkle, William M. Stewart, and others. . (The collection has another copy of this article in volume 79 [no. 53].)