Abraham Lincoln and the Virtues of War: How Civil War Families Challenged and Transformed Our National Values: How Civil War Families Challenged and Transformed Our National Values

This study introduces a new perspective on Lincoln and the Civil War through an examination of his declaration of our national values and the subsequent interpretation of those values by families during the war.

• Takes a new approach to the study of the Civil War as it connects Lincoln to families' assessment of their own and national virtues

• Provides a unique viewpoint on Lincoln's virtues derived from his important Independence Hall speech

• Shows how virtue helped to coalesce families into one unified nation

• Is enlivened by short biographical pieces in every chapter