TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,James D. TI - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln AV - J PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - United States -- Politics and government KW - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 KW - United States -- History -- Sources KW - Presidents -- United States N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compilation_of_the_Messages_and_Papers_of_the_Presidents; Release date is 2004-05-01; Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 6, part 1" compiled by James D. Richardson is a historical document collection published between 1897 and 1911. This volume preserves Abraham Lincoln's presidential proclamations, messages, and speeches from March 1861 to April 1865. Part of an eleven-volume series spanning 1787 to 1902, it captures the official words of America's sixteenth president during the nation's most turbulent period. The compilation itself sparked the Richardson Affair, a political controversy over copyrighting public documents that changed federal law. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12462 ER -