Abraham Lincoln : the war years : with 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters, documents / by Carl Sandburg.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace, & Company,
1939.
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| Physical Description: | 4 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Abraham Lincoln: War years |
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Contents:
- Volume 1: America-whither?
- From Springfield to Washington
- Peace efforts fail
- Lincoln takes the oath as president
- Cabinet portraits
- Office-seekers
- War challenge at Sumter
- Call for troops
- Jefferson Davis-his government
- Turmoil-fear-hazards
- Bull run lost '61-Commander McClellan
- Fremont in Missouri-James Gordon Bennett
- Trent affair -"One war at a time"
- Uses of patronage
- December '61 message-committee on the conduct of the war
- Opinion-makers
- Expectations of McClellan
- Corruption-Stanton replaces Cameron
- White House children
- Donelson-Grant-Shiloh
- Farewell, wooden warships!
- Seven days of battles-Summer of '62
- Draft-decisions-pathos
- Second bull Run August '62-chaos
- Bloody Antietam September '62
- Involved slavery issue
- Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation '62
- McClellan's "slows" and politics
- Election losses in '62-Indian deaths
- December '62 message-"We cannot escape history"
- Burnside-Fredericksburg '62-morale
- Thunder over the cabinet
- Volume 2: Drifting-Murfreesboro-"old stars"
- Final Emancipation Proclamation '63
- "More horses than oats"-office-seekers
- Foreign mediation-Butler
- Hooker-Chancellorsville-calamity
- Vicksburg-Grant, liquor, and Lincoln
- Deep shadows-Lincoln in early '63
- Man in the White House
- Gettysburg-Vicksburg-deep tides
- Lincoln at storm center
- Chickamauga and elections won '63
- Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg
- Epic '63 draws to a close
- Grant given high command '64
- Will his party renominate Lincoln?
- Cash for war-Almaden-hard times
- Chase thirsts to run for president
- Volume 3: Spring of '64-blood and anger
- Grant's offensive '64-free press-Lincoln visits the army
- Lincoln-Johnson ticket
- Washington beleaguered and tumultuous
- Darkest month of the war-August '64
- Fierce fall campaign of '64
- Lincoln's laughter-and his religion
- Man had become the issue
- Election day, November 8, 1864
- Lincoln names a chief justice
- Bitter year of '64 comes to a close
- Volume 4: "Forever free"
- Thirteenth amendment
- Heavy smoke-dark smoke
- Second inaugural
- Executive routine
- Lincoln visits Grant's army
- Grant breaks Lee's line '65
- Lincoln sits in the Confederate White House
- Palm Sunday of '65
- North goes wild
- "Not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart"
- Negotiations-ominous dream
- Calendar says Good Friday
- Blood on the moon
- Shock-the assassin-stricken people
- Tree is best measured when it's down
- Vast pageant, then great quiet.