Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Map
PART I
BEFORE: City of Confusion
Chapter 1 My God, We Are Ruined!
Chapter 2 City of Slavery
Chapter 3 City of Confusion
Chapter 4 The Great Riot Year
Chapter 5 The War of the Pennies
Chapter 6 Immigrants and Know-Nothings
Chapter 7 A Trio of Tammany Rogues
Chapter 8 Lurching Toward the Precipice
Chapter 9 Riot and Outrage
Chapter 10 From New York to Bleeding Kansas
Chapter 11 Leaves of Grass
Chapter 12 Hard Times and High
Chapter 13 Murder and Rebellion
Chapter 14 Slave Ships
Chapter 15 The Tall, Dark Horse Stranger
Chapter 16 City of Secession
PART II
DURING: City of Sedition
Chapter 17 The Tempest Bursting
Chapter 18 War! War!! War!!!
Chapter 19 New York to the Rescue
Chapter 20 Immigrants Join the Fight
Chapter 21 The First to Fall
Chapter 22 Seeing the Elephant; or, The Great Skedaddle
Chapter 23 The Hyenas of War
Chapter 24 The Shoddy Aristocracy
Chapter 25 We Are Coming, Father Abraham
Chapter 26 Three Cheers for Ericsson
Chapter 27 I Goes to Fight mit Sigel
Chapter 28 The Dead of Antietam
Chapter 29 Sambo’s Right to Be Kilt
Chapter 30 Burnside Falls, Sickles Rises
Chapter 31 Grafted into the Army
Chapter 32 Dan Sickles, Hero or Villain?
Chapter 33 The Volcano Erupts
Chapter 34 Tweed to the Rescue
Chapter 35 The Fire in the Rear
Chapter 36 New York City’s Burning
Chapter 37 Last Acts
Chapter 38 A “Hippodrome of Sorrow”
PART III
AFTER: City of Gilt
Chapter 39 The Postwar Boom
Chapter 40 Anything to Beat Grant
Chapter 41 Scandals and Scams
Chapter 42 Old Soldiers
Epilogue
Photos
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by John Strausbaugh
Notes
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