The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a U.S. senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But amid all the violence, the campaign of the new Republican Party, headed by famed explorer John C. Fremont, offered a ray of hope: a major party dedicated to limiting the spread of slavery.
The Middle Ground
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American Insurgents, American Patriots
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Adventures of a Mountain Man
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The War-Trail Fort : The Adventures of Pitamakan & Thomas Fox
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My Memoirs of the Civil War : Civil War Memories Series
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Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (Illustrated Edition) : Civil War Memories Series
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Hank and Jim : The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
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The Story of Cole Younger: An Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw : Civil War Memories Series
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Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons (Illustrated Edition) : Civil War Memories Series
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Whicker’s War
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The New Trail of Tears
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Bringing Mulligan Home : The Other Side of the Good War
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