Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union by Louis P. Masur

Author:Louis P. Masur
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-09-22T06:00:00+00:00

11. Lincoln signed forty-eight copies of this authorized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation—special souvenirs to be sold at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 1864. Approximately half of them have survived in public and private collections. Print of Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln (1864; courtesy of Seth Kaller).

12. Francis Carpenter lived in the White House for six months and hoped to create a masterpiece, a history painting that depicted the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. The painting did not succeed nearly as well as the book he published several years later: Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. Francis Carpenter, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (1864; United States Capitol).

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