Record #:

21010

Author(s):

Bradley, Bert E.

Abstract:

This article examines newspaper accounts of, and published and editorial reactions to, President Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address in the context of North Carolina having not yet seceded at the time of the event and of there being a fair amount of pro-union sentiment among the state's citizens.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 46 Issue 3, July 1969, p271-280, il, por

Subject(s):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Antebellum period, 1820-1961--Newspaper