Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a NationNo American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called Father Abraham. In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries the voices of the volunteers to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became Father throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered