Your Friend, as Ever, A. Lincoln: How the Unlikely Friendship of Gustav Koerner and Abraham Lincoln Changed America

by Donald Allendorf

This work reveals the monumentally influential friendship between America's sixteenth president and Gustav Koerner, a German revolutionary who settled on the Illinois frontier. With research based in unique correspondence previously ignored by Lincoln and Civil War scholars, this innovative volume sheds light on an unexamined aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life.

Exiled from Germany as a revolutionary in 1833, Koerner met Lincoln in frontier...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455618837
• ISBN13: 9781455618835
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"