Turning Points of the Civil War

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgment vi
• Title Page vii
• Preface to the New Bison Book Edition xi
• Notes xv
• Introduction 1
• Kentucky and the Borderland 9
• Bull Run 47
• The Trent Affair 69
• Antietam 97
• The Emancipation Proclamation 115
• The July Days: Gettysburg and Vicksburg 145
• The Election of 1864 169
• Afterword 205
• Bibliography 213
• Index 221