Machine generated contents note: 1. Abraham Lincoln, Our Ever-Present Contemporary 2. "A Matter of Profound Wonder": The Women in Lincoln's Life 17 3. Abraham Lincoln: Commander in Chief or "Attorney in Chief"? 34 4. Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: The Corning Letter 60 5. Abraham Lincoln: The President and George Gordon Meade -An Evolving Commander in Chief 80 6. A View from the Field: The Soldiers' Vote for Abraham Lincoln's Reelection 93 7. The End of Slavery: Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment -What Did He Know and When He Did Know It? z28 8. Warrior, Communitarian, and Echo: The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt I46 9. Lincoln Collecting: What's Left? 163 Written with Mark E. Neely Jr.