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Michael J. Deeb
is the author of seven novels which take place during the American Civil War known as The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty and Honor is the first novel of The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty Accomplished is the second novel.
In Honor Restored the character Michael returns to the life of a farmer.
In the fourth novel, The Lincoln Assassination Michael Drieborg works with a team of marshals.
The title 1860 America Moves Toward War explores the issues at stake in the 1860 elections.In The Way West, Michael Drieborg's youngest son runs away to join the US Cavalry in the West. Civil War Prisons follows the fate of both Union and Confederate captives and the quality of life they each endured during their confinement.
Mike Deeb, with co-writer Robert Lockwood Mills, has also penned two novels which explore the Kennedy Assassination and attempts to answer the question, "Did Oswald Really Act Alone?" Learn more at thekennedymurder.com.
Michael also blogs on the Website americacolonists.com, telling the stories of the freest people on earth.
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A Great Read! I couldn’t put this book down once I got started. The detail was great and I really like the main character, Michael. Knowing that so much research went into this book made it exciting to read! Anon
Pre-War advice to the Presidents 1861
Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis received advice from men in and out of their administrations during the secession spring of 1861. Both leaders were told that peace was preferable to war.
In the North, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Post, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States, urged Lincoln to let the South go their own way. General Taylor, Lincoln chief military adviser, also urged the president to wish the Confederate States of America well and let them go.
Republican leaders in the mid-west however, wanted Lincoln to recover control over the Mississippi River and New Orleans; by whatever means necessary. But, northern manufacturers, shippers and bankers believed war was not good for business. They wanted a peaceful solution to the secession crises, not war.
Lincoln’s Secretary of State Seward wanted a peaceful solution to the secession crises, too. Toward that end, he met with representatives of the Confederate States in Washington City after Lincoln’s inauguration. Seward assured them that property still held by the Union within the boarders of the CSA, would be relinquished peacefully.
But, Seward did not accurately represent Lincoln’s views on the matter. In fact, Lincoln had already made it very clear in his inaugural address that he held a view contrary to Seward’s. Lincoln said that he did not intend to relinquish control over any Federal property claimed by the Confederate States of America.
In the South, some members of the President Davis cabinet cautioned him that moving aggressively to take Federal property (like Fort Sumter) was not a wise move. His Secretary of State Robert Tombs reminded him that many in the North wanted Lincoln to maintain the peace at all costs. He also predicted that any attack on federal property by the Confederate government would unite those people (even Democrats) behind Lincoln’s hard -line policy. Thus Lincoln would have the excuse he needed for a war against the Confederate States of America.
Into this crises came the issue of the tariff.