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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (Walter Stahr B) swords Countless books have examined theStanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr Walter Stahr, award winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincolns indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (18141869) was the most powerful and controversial. Stanton raised, armed, and supervised