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Index
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
MAP
PREFACE
PART ONE THE RIVALS
1 Competing Presidents
2 A New Nation
3 Mr. Lincoln’s Satchel
4 Thorns in Montgomery
5 In Maschera
6 Siege
7 Assassination Plot
8 Uncle Jeff
9 Sermon on the Mount
10 A Fiat of War
PART TWO FORT SUMTER
1 The Gathering Storm
2 Archstone of Defense
3 Comic Opera
4 Davis Distrusts His Opponent
5 Evacuation?
6 Mutual Deceit
7 Seward’s Wickedness
8 The Curse of Slavery
9 Treason
10 Coup d’État
11 Blitzkrieg
12 Lincoln the Enigma
13 Countdown to War
14 Inferno
PART THREE THE FOG OF WAR
1 A Presidential Proclamation
2 Defense against Aggression
3 Unintended Consequences
4 Insurrection in Virginia
5 A Poisoned Chalice
6 Panic in Washington
7 Botany Bay
8 Russell Is Wrong
9 Richmond
10 Councils of War
11 Avant le Déluge
PART FOUR BULL RUN
1 Davis’s Letter to Lincoln
2 Bull Run
3 Bait and Switch
4 Day of Battle
5 Taking the Train
6 Catastrophe
7 Aftermath
8 A Glorious Victory
PART FIVE THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
1 Frémont’s Proclamation
2 The Writing on the Wall
3 Lincoln Reacts
4 The Death of Jefferson Davis
5 No War on Slavery
6 Injuring the Southern Cause
7 Defiance
8 The President’s War Powers
9 A Confederate Council of War
10 A Missed Opportunity
11 Convulsing a Continent
12 The Opportunity Is Lost
PART SIX WINTER OF DISCONTENT
1 “Supreme Commander”
2 Simplicity—or Conceit
3 Pie in the Sky
4 A Farcical Council of War
5 Davis Is Inaugurated
6 McClellan Is Mad
7 Talk of Resignation
8 A House of Mourning
9 Hiding Weakness
10 Peninsula Bound
11 Spirits Rise in Richmond
PART SEVEN WAR ON THE PENINSULA
1 Thorough Imbeciles
2 “Hope Is by No Means Extinct”
3 The Seven Days Battles
4 Man of Straw
5 The Guns Fall Silent
PART EIGHT HARRISON’S LANDING
1 Capitulation?
2 Order No. 28
3 Washington
4 Options
5 “Something Must Be Done”
6 To Strike or Not to Strike
7 Damp Squib
PART NINE THE END OF THE ROPE
1 Confederate Invasion
2 Whipped Again
3 Lee’s Proclamation
4 Marylanders Do Not Rise
5 Lee’s Great Mistake
6 Lincoln’s Counter-Proclamation
7 The Last Card
8 Denouement
PART TEN THE HUNDRED DAYS
1 End of a Glittering Illusion
2 Recognition Is Dead
3 No Debate in the South
4 Bon Soldat
5 The Cause of Humanity
EPILOGUE: The Angel of Liberty
PHOTOS
AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DISCOVER MORE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY NIGEL HAMILTON
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LINCOLN VS. DAVIS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ENDNOTES
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