| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut. By Jeffrey N. Lash. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003. xii, 300 pp. $49.00, ISBN 0-87338-766-X.)
Although one of Abraham Lincoln's more interesting political generals, Stephen A. Hurlbut has until now been neglected by historians. Jeffrey N. Lash has now tackled the task of examining this complicated and contradictory character.	1
Hurlbut was born in South Carolina, the son of New England–born parents. His family condemned slavery as morally wrong but owned slaves because it seemed expedient. Not surprisingly, Hurlbut displayed throughout his life a highly flexible sense of morality. During his youth he became an adherent of his parents' Unitarianism, and as a young man he took up law, showed an interest in politics, served in the Seminole war, and became an active member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge.	. . .

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