Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

by James R. Gilmore

2007 Stackpole Classic trade paperback, James R. Gilmore (Rear-Guard of the Revolution). In 1864, America was more than weary of the bloody civil war. At that moment, James R. Gilmore made a suggestion to Abraham Lincoln to take to Confederate President Jefferson Davis a set of accords by which the North would be willing to have peace. But the purpose of the trip was to propose terms that Lincoln and Gilmore knew Northerners (and the rest of the world) would consider fair and that the Confederates would never accept, thereby gaining Jeff Davis the scorn of the world. It would also help secure Lincoln the 1864 election. - Amazon

Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

James Roberts Gilmore (1822-1903)
Wrote often under pseudonym Edmund Kirke , but also under his own name.