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Item Burnside's Police State(2013-04-05) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item Civil War-Era Democrats and President Abraham Lincoln: Two Assessments of Loyal Opposition in Wartime(2019-07-29) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-A review essay of two recent books on political opposition in the North during the American Civil War finds historians have not adequately researched the Democratic opposition to the Lincoln administration. Historians must focus their attention on the words and actions of the rank-and-file membership of the Democratic Party to understand why they took violent measures to oppose the Republican government across the North.Item Emancipation in Indiana(2012-09-27) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item Fear and Loathing in Indiana(2013-02-22) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item Killing the Serpent Speedily: Governor Morton, General Hascall, and the Suppression of the Democratic Press in Indiana, 1863(Civil War History, 2006-03) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item The Persistent Nullifier: the Life of Civil War Conspirator Lambdin P. Milligan(2013-12) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item "Such conduct must be put down:" The Military Arrest of Judge Charles H. Constable during the Civil War(Journal of Illinois History, 2006) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item "These Scoundrels Stand in No Fear of the Civil Courts; They Do, of the Military:" The Decision to Use Military Commissions to Try the Indiana Conspirators in 1864(University Press of Kansas, 2020) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-The decision to employ military commissions to try conspirators in Indiana in 1864 was more complicated than historians have previously understood. Many persons contributed over a long period, but President Abraham Lincoln made the decision based on his calculations about his chances of being reelected. Fearing that he would lose the fall election, Lincoln took the expedient step to try conspirators by military commission.Item Three Newly Uncovered Letters of George Armstrong Custer(Kent State University Press, 2024-04) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Three letters written by George Armstrong Custer, previously unknown to historians and biographers, provide new details about President Abraham Lincoln's visits to the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and the battle of Antietam.Item The War Comes Home to Indiana(2013-03-13) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-