Lyman Trumbull served Illinois in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1873, through the slavery crisis, the Civil War and Reconstruction, yet no one had written his life until his widow asked the journalist Horace White. White follows Trumbull’s rivalry and alliance with Lincoln, his part in drafting the Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act, and his vote in Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial.
A biography from a friend and contemporary, valuable to anyone studying the Civil War Senate. Download the free EPUB.