Details

Description

528 p. 25 cm.

Series

[The American epochs series]

McClimans, Todd. American epochs.

Bibliography

Includes bibliography.

Contents

Preface / Frank Freidel -- Introduction / William B. Hesseltine -- Disunion movements / Thomas Hart Benton -- The road to disunion / Edward A. Pollard -- Lincoln campaigns against Douglas / Horace White -- John Brown : Kansas and Harper's Ferry / Horace Greeley -- The Republicans nominate Lincoln / Murat Halstead -- Constitutional view of the war / Alexander H. Stephens -- The Confederate States of America / Jefferson Davis -- The opening scenes / Isaac N. Arnold -- To arms! out of a quiet neighborhood / Charles Beneulyn Johnson -- A Texan in search of a fight / John C. West -- The fall of Vicksburg / Ulysses S. Grant -- A glimpse at the Secret Service / Charles A. Dana -- Spiritual welfare : in the North / Horatio B. Hackett -- Spiritual welfare : in the South / William W. Bennett -- Mother Bickerdyke / Frank Moore -- With Sherman / George W. Pepper -- A Confederate goes home / John Will Dyer -- The last Confederate cruiser / Cornelius E. Hunt --

Lincoln's road to emancipation / John A. Logan -- The governors and emancipation / New York Herald -- Caring for the freedmen / John Eaton -- Slaves and war times / Susan Dabney Smedes -- Facts and opinions in North and South / William H. Russell -- A run through the Southern States / An English Officer -- Resources of the North and South / The Knickerbocker Magazine -- Supplies for the Confederacy / Caleb Huse -- The work of the Ordnance Bureau / J.W. Mallett -- The political revolution / The (Columbus) Crisis -- A copperhead view of northern consolidation / Alexander Harris -- Southern morale : a patriot's view / Edward A. Pollard -- Irreconcilably hostile systems / Frank H. Alfriend -- The test of civilization / Atlantic Monthly -- Financial resources of the North / The Knickerbocker Magazine -- The carnival of fraud / Henry S. Olcott -- Inventive genius / Scientific American -- The new national mind / Harper's New Monthly Magazine --

Northern invasions / E.E. Hale -- Beckoning fields of cotton / Thomas W. Knox -- General Sherman negotiates peace / Jacob Donalson Cox -- Excluding the rebel / Whitelaw Reid -- On the state of the country / Bill Arp -- A changed government / Henry Adams -- Republican corruption in the South / Daniel W. Vorhees -- The disputed election / Hugh McCulloch -- The Negro character : a southern review / General Basil W. Duke -- Forgotten / Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Subject

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.