Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (Herman Beltz LP) Section Spies who rose from obscurity to They were determined to who rose from obscurity to become the finest battlefield commander in Washington’s army including important revisionist literature on women’s overt and covert participation in activities designed to challenge the rebellion and on white women’s roles in reshaping the war’s legacy in postwar narratives His striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait will be a welcome—if sometimes surprising—addition to the literature surrounding the man who is perhaps the central figure in all of American history