| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Senator Henry Wilson and the Civil War. By John L. Myers. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. x, 233 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-7618-3876-0. Paper, $34.00, ISBN 978-0-7618-3877-7.)
John L. Myers recently wrote a study of the Massachusetts senator Henry Wilson's state and national political career prior to the Civil War, and here he follows his subject through the war years. This study ends with President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, which occurred while Wilson was returning from the ceremonial reoccupation of Fort Sumter. Myers concludes with several pages summarizing Wilson's view of Lincoln and his contributions to the war effort and to abolition.	1
There is no major archive of Wilson's correspondence. His biographers must comb other collections for Wilson items, scan newspapers, mine memoirs of contemporaries, and track his contributions and policy statements in the records of the U.S. Congress. Myers compressed his findings into 185 pages of text, an amount more than double the coverage that Ernest McKay and Richard H. Abbott provided of the wartime years in their useful biographies of Wilson (Ernest McKay, Henry Wilson, 1971; Richard H. Abbott, Cobbler in Congress, 1972). Myers also provides detailed notes and a bibliography.	. . .

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