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Index
Cover
Stephen
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Foreword
Dedication
Halftitle
1860
NOVEMBER 6 The Sixteenth President
#1 How Did Lincoln Get Elected?
NOVEMBER 10 “The Gravest Apprehensions”
NOVEMBER 20 A Public Statement
#2 Why Did the South Fear Lincoln?
NOVEMBER 30 Alexander Stephens
DECEMBER 5 The Buchanan Perspective
DECEMBER 18 “No Sign Will Be Given Them”
DECEMBER 24 Forts
DECEMBER 27 Lincoln in Stone
1861
JANUARY 3 Lincoln Vacillates
#3 A Divisive Cabinet
JANUARY 11 Lincoln Stands Firm
#4 The Other Thirteenth Amendment
JANUARY 12 Visitors
JANUARY 24 “Diamond in the Rough”
#5 Informal Wear
JANUARY 28 Inaugural Preparations
JANUARY 31 A Tearful Goodbye
#6 Sally
FEBRUARY 6 A Last Springfield Reception
#7 What the Lincolns Left Behind
FEBRUARY 8 The Lincolns Move Out
FEBRUARY 11 Lincoln Leaves Springfield
FEBRUARY 14 Whistle-stops
FEBRUARY 15 “There Is No Crisis”
FEBRUARY 21 The Baltimore Plot
#8 Should Lincoln Have Been Worried?
FEBRUARY 23 Lincoln’s Secret Train Ride
#9 Lincoln’s First day in Washington
FEBRUARY 27 The Old Nemesis
MARCH 5 Anderson’s Warning
MARCH 10 Lincoln Goes to Church
#10 Praying for the President
MARCH 12 Surrendering Sumter?
MARCH 16 Lincoln Polls His Cabinet
#11 The Surrounded Fortress
MARCH 18 The Green President
MARCH 19 Patronage
MARCH 29 The Commander in Chief Decides
MARCH 30 A Share in the Patronage Pie
APRIL 1 The American Prime Minister
#12 Seward’s Ambition
APRIL 5 The Presidential Paycheck
APRIL 6 To Avoid War
APRIL 13 Sumter Falls
APRIL 17 Virginia Secedes from the Union
#13 The Anguished Decision
APRIL 19 The Blockade
#14 Was Lincoln’s Blockade effective?
APRIL 21 Washington is Isolated
APRIL 24 The Wait
APRIL 25 Maryland and Secession
APRIL 27 The First Suspension of Habeas Corpus
APRIL 29 The Irregulars
MAY 1 The Powhatan Fiasco
#15 Did Lincoln Provoke the War?
MAY 4 The Committee
MAY 21 A Letter to London
#16 Thorny Relations
MAY 24 Elmer Ellsworth
MAY 27 The Quartermaster General
MAY 30 Taney vs. Lincoln
JUNE 3 “His Name Fills the Nation”
JUNE 13 The Sharpshooters
JUNE 17 Executive Decor
#17 How Bad Was the White House?
JUNE 18 Aerial Reconnaissance
JUNE 22 The Daunting Task
JUNE 29 Two Plans
JULY 20 “You Are All Green Alike”
JULY 21 Distant Guns
JULY 23 A Grim Reevaluation
#18 “I Believe He Would Do It”
JULY 27 McClellan Comes to Washington
AUGUST 2 The Picnic
AUGUST 3 Prince Napoleon
AUGUST 5 Income Tax
AUGUST 6 Lincoln vs. Congress
AUGUST 15 Missouri’s Woes
AUGUST 16 Trade Across the Lines
AUGUST 17 The “Coffee-mill Gun”
#19 The Father of Invention
AUGUST 24 Neutral Kentucky
AUGUST 31 “Our First Naval Victory”
SEPTEMBER 2 Fremont’s Proclamation
SEPTEMBER 9 Lincoln Sends Fremont Help
SEPTEMBER 10 Ironclads
SEPTEMBER 11 “He Knows What I Want Done”
SEPTEMBER 16 The Fremonts vs. the Blairs
SEPTEMBER 30 Political Arrests
#20 Maryland and Civil Liberties
OCTOBER 8 Troop Reviews
OCTOBER 19 The Navy Yard
OCTOBER 20 Wires that Spanned a Continent
OCTOBER 21 Edward Baker
OCTOBER 27 Fremont Is Dismissed
#21 Handling Fremont
NOVEMBER 1 Scott’s Out, McClellan’s In
#22 Scott vs. McClellan
NOVEMBER 13 Dodging the President
NOVEMBER 15 The Trent Affair
#23 Why Was Recognition of the Confederacy Important?
NOVEMBER 16 The Gardener
#24 Mary’s Bills
NOVEMBER 28 Thanksgiving
NOVEMBER 29 “Chevalier” Wikoff
DECEMBER 3 Chaplains
DECEMBER 26 Seward’s Argument
1862
JANUARY 6 Lincoln Defends McClellan
JANUARY 10 “The Bottom Is Out of the Tub”
JANUARY 13 Lincoln Removes Cameron
#25 Cameron’s “Shoddy” Department
JANUARY 26 The Not-So-Tenderhearted Lincoln
JANUARY 27 Lincoln Demands His Armies Move
FEBRUARY 2 Lincoln Meets Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26 Emerson on Lincoln
FEBRUARY 4 Lincoln Refuses a Pardon
FEBRUARY 5 A White House Ball
FEBRUARY 12 Lincoln’s Sick Child
#27 Willie
FEBRUARY 16 Fort Donelson Surrenders
FEBRUARY 20 “My Boy is Gone!”
FEBRUARY 24 Willie’s Funeral
FEBRUARY 25 The National Bank
FEBRUARY 28 McClellan’s Mistake
MARCH 6 Compensated Emancipation
#28 Why Compensated Emancipation Failed
MARCH 9 The CSS Virginia
MARCH 11 Lincoln Demotes McClellan
MARCH 13 The Peninsula Campaign Begins
MARCH 14 Seizing Neutral Ships
APRIL 9 “But You Must Act”
APRIL 10 “Place of Peace”
APRIL 16 Slaves Freed in the District of Columbia
MAY 5 On the March to Richmond
MAY 7 A Trip to Fortress Monroe
MAY 9 A Private Little War
#29 Commander in Chief
MAY 11 “Norfolk Is Ours”
MAY 15 The Department of Agriculture
MAY 16 The General’s Pet
#30 McClellan’s Ego
MAY 17 Reinforcements
MAY 19 Hunter’s Emancipation
#31 Why Lincoln Had to be the Emancipator
MAY 20 The Homestead Act
MAY 23 A Day at Fredericksburg
MAY 25 McDowell Is Recalled
MAY 26 Lincoln Protects Cameron’s Reputation
#32 Lincoln’s Magnanimity
MAY 28 Three Generals
JUNE 1 “Hold All Your Ground”
JUNE 7 “Quiet is Very Necessary to Us”
JUNE 14 A Twenty-dollar Fine
JUNE 15 Fremont’s Nerves
#33 The Shenandoah or Richmond?
JUNE 19 The Extension of Slavery
JUNE 20 “Public Opinion Baths”
#34 His Changing Mind
JUNE 23 Advice From an Old War Horse
JUNE 25 “I Owe No Thanks to You”
JULY 2 The Peninsula Campaign Ends
JULY 9 The “Harrison Bar Letter”
JULY 12 Medal of Honor
JULY 17 Congress and Slavery
JULY 22 The Preliminary Emancipation
JULY 28 “Friends Who Would Hold My Hands”
AUGUST 4 “Gentlemen, You Have My Decision”
#35 What Changed His Mind
AUGUST 14 An Unpopular Policy
#36 Lincoln and Colonization
AUGUST 22 “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”
AUGUST 29 Waiting on a Victory
AUGUST 30 “Leave Pope to Get Out of His Scrape”
SEPTEMBER 1 “I Must Have McClellan”
#37 “Almost Ready to Hang Himself”
SEPTEMBER 5 Bucktails
#38 Company K
SEPTEMBER 12 “Maryland, My Maryland”
SEPTEMBER 13 A Bull Against a Comet
SEPTEMBER 15 The Cigar Wrapper
SEPTEMBER 17 Antietam
SEPTEMBER 22 The Promise of Freedom
#39 “Queer Little Conceits”
SEPTEMBER 24 Habeas Corpus Suspended Nationally
#40 Multiple Suspensions
SEPTEMBER 26 “That Is Not the Game”
SEPTEMBER 28 “Breath Alone Kills No Rebels”
OCTOBER 2 How the Troops Felt
OCTOBER 3 “McClellan’s Bodyguard“
#41 “Ditties”
OCTOBER 4 “No Enemies Here”
#42 Mary and the Wounded
OCTOBER 7 “To Hurt the Enemy”
OCTOBER 12 Buell
OCTOBER 14 Tad and the Military
#43 “Cussed Old Abe Himself”
OCTOBER 17 Lincoln Meets Commodore Nutt
OCTOBER 24 Lincoln Removes Buell
OCTOBER 25 The Couchant Lion
OCTOBER 26 Lincoln’s Purpose
NOVEMBER 5 “Hard, Tough Fighting”
NOVEMBER 7 Ellet’s Rams
NOVEMBER 14 A “Soldier” or a “Housekeeper”
NOVEMBER 22 “Impedimenta”
NOVEMBER 26 Missed Opportunities
DECEMBER 1 The Minnesota Sioux Uprising
DECEMBER 6 Mercy
#44 Lincoln and Native Americans
DECEMBER 11 Resolutions
DECEMBER 12 Fernando Wood
DECEMBER 14 Fredericksburg
DECEMBER 17 “Lincoln’s Evil Genius”
#45 The Cabinet Crisis
DECEMBER 20 Cutting the Gordian Knot
DECEMBER 29 Cabinet Meetings
DECEMBER 30 “You Fail Me”
DECEMBER 31 The Evolving Proclamation
1863
JANUARY 1 The Emancipation Proclamation
JANUARY 4 Anti-Semitism
JANUARY 5 A Bright Moment in a Dark Year
JANUARY 8 Lincoln Refuses a Resignation
#46 Resignations
JANUARY 14 Arming Black Soldiers
JANUARY 18 Churches
JANUARY 19 “The Sleeping Sentinel”
#47 Childhood Home
JANUARY 21 Too Close to McClellan
JANUARY 22 Political Generals
JANUARY 25 Hooker Replaces Burnside
FEBRUARY 13 Lincoln Meets Tom Thumb
FEBRUARY 18 The African Slave Trade
MARCH 3 Two Notorious Acts
MARCH 15 Raiders
MARCH 20 The Banished Reporter
APRIL 7 Princess Salm-Salm
APRIL 20 West Virginia Becomes a State
APRIL 23 Séances in the White House
#48 “Long Brave” Joins a Séance
APRIL 28 An Anxious President
MAY 3 Telegrams
MAY 6 “What Will the Country Say?”
#49 “I Am Down to Raisins”
MAY 12 Death of a Legend
MAY 13 Copperheads
MAY 14 “I Would Be Very Glad of Another Movement”
MAY 22 The Vicksburg Siege Begins
MAY 29 Burnside Offers to Resign Again
JUNE 2 Grant Worries Lincoln
JUNE 4 Lincoln Reopens the Chicago Times
#50 Lincoln and Freedom of the Press
JUNE 5 Lee Moves North
JUNE 9 Nightmares
#51 Lincoln’s Dreams
JUNE 12 The Corning Letter
JUNE 16 Hooker and Halleck
JUNE 26 Late-Night Visitors
JUNE 27 “His Own Dunghill”
JULY 3 A Carriage Accident
#52 Threats
JULY 4 Gettysburg
JULY 5 “The Pretended Confederate States”
JULY 6 “The Whole Country Is Our Soil”
JULY 7 “Caught the Rabbit”
JULY 13 Draft Riots
JULY 14 “Your Golden Opportunity is Gone”
#53 Could Meade Have Ended the War?
JULY 15 From Anger to Laughter
#54 Robert
JULY 18 Reviewing Courts-martial
#55 “Leg Cases”
JULY 24 War Widows
JULY 25 Routes
JULY 29 Caution
JULY 30 Order of Retaliation
#56 The “Black Flag”
AUGUST 1 To “Live in History”
AUGUST 7 “Bullocks into a Slaughter Pen”
AUGUST 9 “The Tycoon Is in a Fine Whack”
#57 The Physical Man
AUGUST 10 Lincoln Meets Frederick Douglass
AUGUST 11 War Governors
AUGUST 13 The Symbol
AUGUST 20 The Telegraph Office
AUGUST 26 The Conklin Letter
AUGUST 27 Bounty-jumpers
SEPTEMBER 14 The Judiciary vs. the Executive
SEPTEMBER 18 Old Friends
#58 The Almanac Murder Trial
SEPTEMBER 21 “River of Death”
SEPTEMBER 25 The Rant
SEPTEMBER 27 Reinforcements for Rosecrans
SEPTEMBER 29 Temperance
OCTOBER 5 “No Friends in Missouri”
OCTOBER 6 Grover’s National Theater
OCTOBER 9 Prison Camps
OCTOBER 16 The Cracker Line
OCTOBER 18 The Chin-fly
#59 “Pieces Upon a Chessboard”
OCTOBER 23 Murder in Maryland
OCTOBER 28 Arming the Disloyal
OCTOBER 30 Ford’s Theatre
NOVEMBER 2 “I Am Used to It”
NOVEMBER 9 Tyrannicide
NOVEMBER 12 The Competition
NOVEMBER 17 A Cemetery in Gettysburg
NOVEMBER 18 Writing the Gettysburg Address
NOVEMBER 19 The Address
NOVEMBER 23 Siege at Knoxville
NOVEMBER 25 Missionary Ridge
NOVEMBER 27 Sickbed
#60 Lincoln’s Health
DECEMBER 4 “Pipes”
DECEMBER 8 Amnesty and Reconstruction
DECEMBER 9 Annual Message
DECEMBER 13 Emilie’s Visit
DECEMBER 16 A Rebel in the White House
DECEMBER 19 The Imperial Navy
#61 Did Russia Save the Union?
DECEMBER 22 Freedom of Religion
DECEMBER 23 The Storyteller
#62 The Uses of His Stories
DECEMBER 28 Lincoln’s Secretaries
1864
JANUARY 7 The Butchering Business
#63 “Until Further Orders”
JANUARY 16 Lincoln Meets Anna Dickinson
JANUARY 20 Reconstructing Arkansas
JANUARY 23 The “Voluntary Labor System”
JANUARY 29 Lincoln Sends an Emissary South
FEBRUARY 9 Two Photos That Became Icons
FEBRUARY 10 Willie’s Pony Dies
#64 The Lincolns’ Pets
FEBRUARY 19 The Booths and the Lincolns
FEBRUARY 22 The Pomeroy Circular
FEBRUARY 29 Lincoln Outmaneuvers Chase
MARCH 1 Grant is Promoted
MARCH 2 Lincoln’s Memory
MARCH 7 The Dahlgren Conspiracy
MARCH 8 Lincoln Meets Grant
MARCH 21 Nevada to Become a State
#65 Words that Haunted Him
MARCH 24 Failure in Florida
MARCH 25 “Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?”
MARCH 28 White House Security
APRIL 3 The Hodges Letter
#66 The Doctrine of Necessity
APRIL 18 The Baltimore Riot
APRIL 22 “In God We Trust”
APRIL 26 The Presidential Office
APRIL 30 Lincoln Meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton
MAY 2 An Annoyed General
MAY 8 “There Will Be no Turning Back”
MAY 10 Banishing Clergy
MAY 18 The Ruse
MAY 31 “About Four Hundred Men”
JUNE 6 The Baltimore Convention
JUNE 10 Vallindigham Returns
JUNE 11 Lincoln’s Personal Finances
JUNE 21 “I Will Go In”
#67 Casualties of War
JUNE 24 Disparity
#68 Racial Discrimination
JUNE 28 Fugitive Slave Laws
JUNE 30 Chase Loses His Job
#69 Parting Ways
JULY 1 A New Treasury Secretary
JULY 8 The Wade–Davis Bill
JULY 10 “Keep Cool”
JULY 11 Under Fire
JULY 16 The Niagara Falls Peace Efforts
JULY 19 A Riot Close to Home
JULY 26 The Confederates Escape Again
JULY 31 “We Sleep at Night”
AUGUST 8 The Sister-in-Law
#70 Disloyal Kin
AUGUST 12 “Let ’em Wriggle”
AUGUST 18 “I Fear He Is a Failure”
AUGUST 19 The Robinson Letter
#71 “Damned in Time and Eternity”
AUGUST 21 Wrought-iron
AUGUST 23 “The Tide Is Against Us”
AUGUST 25 “Worse than Losing”
AUGUST 28 “Am I to Have No Rest?”
#72 The Soldiers’ Home
SEPTEMBER 3 “Damn the Torpedoes”
#73 If Lincoln Was Not Reelected
SEPTEMBER 4 Conscientious Objectors
SEPTEMBER 6 Women in the Ranks
SEPTEMBER 7 Lincoln and the Bible
#74 What Did Lincoln Believe?
SEPTEMBER 8 Writing Mary
SEPTEMBER 19 The Soldiers’ Vote
SEPTEMBER 20 “Blows Upon a Dead Body”
SEPTEMBER 23 The Deal
OCTOBER 1 “The First Installment”
OCTOBER 10 Cleaning Up a Piece of Ground
OCTOBER 11 Reading “Balderdash”
OCTOBER 13 A Close Race
OCTOBER 15 Citizen Taney
OCTOBER 22 Little Phil’s Ride
OCTOBER 29 Lincoln Meets Sojourner Truth
#75 Was Lincoln a Racist?
OCTOBER 31 Nevada Becomes a State
NOVEMBER 3 Election Preparations
NOVEMBER 4 The Transcontinental Railroad
NOVEMBER 8 Reelection
#76 Mary’s Bad Habit
NOVEMBER 11 To “Save the Union”
NOVEMBER 21 The Bixby Letter
NOVEMBER 24 Edward Bates
DECEMBER 2 Prison Overpopulation
#77 Starving Prisoners
DECEMBER 7 The Nominee
#78 Lincoln’s Supreme Court
DECEMBER 10 Lincoln and Friends
#79 Was Lincoln a Homosexual?
DECEMBER 15 George Thomas
DECEMBER 21 War Democrats
DECEMBER 25 The Christmas Gift
1865
JANUARY 2 “Marse Linkum”
JANUARY 9 The Humblest Employee
JANUARY 15 Lincoln Meets Jean Agassiz
JANUARY 17 Fort Fisher
JANUARY 30 Peace Overtures
FEBRUARY 1 Lincoln Signs the Thirteenth Amendment
FEBRUARY 3 The Hampton Roads Conference
FEBRUARY 7 “Waiting for the Hour”
FEBRUARY 17 Robert Receives His Commission
FEBRUARY 26 “Lots of Wisdom in That Document”
MARCH 4 Lincoln Is Inaugurated
#80 Four Years Earlier
MARCH 17 The Plot
#81 Booth’s Other Attempts
MARCH 22 The Abduction
MARCH 23 The Lincolns Head for the Front
MARCH 26 Hackles of the “Hellcat”
#82 Mary’s Temper
MARCH 27 The City Point Conference
MARCH 31 The Beginning of the End
APRIL 2 “This Is Victory”
APRIL 4 Lincoln Takes a Seat
APRIL 8 “Let the Thing Be Pressed”
APRIL 11 Lincoln’s Last Speech
#83 Why Did Booth Kill Lincoln?
APRIL 12 “Giving Away the Scepter”
APRIL 14 Lincoln’s Final Day
#84 “Sic Semper Tyrannis”
APRIL 15 “Now He Belongs to the Ages”
Afterword-I
Abbreviations
Notes
Afterword-II
Bibliography
Index
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