Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865. Vols. 1-2

Joseph Warren Keifer

1836–1932

A Civil War general who later became Speaker of the U.S. House, he led a long public life that stretched from the 1850s into the early 1900s. His story connects the battlefield, Congress, and the political debates that shaped postwar America.