Research Catalog

Title

Frank Blair : Lincoln's conservative / William E. Parrish.

Author

Parrish, William E. (William Earl), 1931-

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

xv, 318 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Known for his fearlessness in both the political arena and the battlefield, Frank Blair is a Missouri legend. As a member of one of the most prominent and powerful political families in America during the nineteenth century, possibly the equivalent of the twentieth-century Kennedys, Frank was steeped in politics at an early age. The youngest son of Francis Preston Blair, editor of Andrew Jackson's Washington Globe and adviser to Presidents Andrew Jackson through Andrew Johnson, Frank Blair was greatly influenced by his father, who had high political expectations of him.
• Volatile and combative, Blair was either strongly admired or hated by the public figures of his day. He held adamantly to his opinions and fought hard for his political causes. He was an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and championed the president's program in Congress and in Missouri against the frequent assaults of the Radicals. Credited with being the principal leader in saving Missouri for the Union in 1861, Blair later served with great distinction at Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and in the Sherman campaigns throughout Georgia and the Carolinas. He is one of only two Missourians ever honored by his state in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.
• Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative reveals the full extent of Blair's importance as a national political figure. Specialists in nineteenth-century America, students of Missouri history, and Civil War buffs will welcome this study, which will long stand as the definitive work on this influential and colorful character.

Series Statement

[Missouri biography series]

Uniform Title

Missouri biography series

Alternative Title

Lincoln's conservative

Subject

• Blair, Frank P., Jr. 1821-1875
• Blair, Frank P., Jr. 1821-1875
• United States. House > Biography
• To 1950
• Legislators > United States > Biography
• Generals > United States > Biography
• United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
• Missouri > Biography
• Missouri > Politics and government > To 1865
• Missouri > Politics and government > 1865-1950

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Series statement taken from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. Formative years -- ch. 2. New Mexico adventure -- ch. 3. Marriage and politics -- ch. 4. Reputation established -- ch. 5. Missouri for the Union -- ch. 6. Fremont controversy -- ch. 7. Vicksburg caompaign -- ch. 8. Fighting on two fronts -- ch. 9. Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas -- ch. 10. Reconstruction politics -- ch. 11. Final years.

ISBN

0826211569 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97032334^

OCLC

• 37801336
• SCSB-11614952

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library