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Kenneth J. Winkle

Biography

Kenneth J. Winkle

Kenneth J. Winkle, acclaimed Lincoln biographer and Civil War historian, is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. THE YOUNG EAGLE, his volume on Lincoln’s rise, is the standard account.

Kenneth J. Winkle

Books by Kenneth J. Winkle

Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
by Kenneth J. Winkle - History, Nonfiction, Politics

The president and Mrs. Lincoln personally comforted the wounded troops who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July 4th riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals. He saluted the “One-Legged Brigade” assembled outside the White House as “orators,” their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and dedication. These are among the unforgettable scenes in LINCOLN'S CITADEL, a fresh, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln’s leadership in Civil War Washington.