Lincoln's hundred days : the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the union / Louis P. Masur.

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"This is the first book to tell the full story of the critical period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the final, significantly altered, decree. In those tumultuous hundred days, as battlefield deaths mounted, debate ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masur, Louis P.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
United States. > President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). > Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Slavery.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Physical Description:viii, 358 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Before September 22, 1862
  • Toward emancipation
  • Messages and measures
  • A new departure
  • Movement
  • The hundred days
  • Judgments
  • The reactions of scholars and soldiers
  • Intervention and election fever
  • We cannot escape history
  • Standing firm
  • January 1, 1863 and beyond
  • Jubilee
  • Men of color, to arms
  • It can not be retracted
  • Emancipation triumphant
  • Epilogue: April 4, 1865.