The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History

xxviii, 810 pp. 24 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of the author and images of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George B. McClellan, Jefferson Davis, William H. Seward, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Fremont, Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Edward D. Baker, Isaac W. Hayne, Benjamin F. Butler, J.C. Breckinridge, David Hunter, J.J. Crittenden, Henry Winter Davis, Thaddeus Stevens, Abner Doubleday, Lyman Trumbull, Benjamin F. Wade, H.W. Halleck, and Louis T. Wigfall, and three maps (State of War in Virginia; First Bull Run Battle Field; First Bull Run Battle Field, Showing Position of Armies). "In The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History (1886), [Logan] sought to demonstrate that secession and the Civil War were the result of a long-contemplated 'conspiracy' to which various Southern politicians had been party since the Nullification Crisis; he also vindicated the pre-war political positions of Stephen A. Douglas and himself."