Tragic Years, 1860-1865: A Documentary History of the American Civil War - Vol. 1

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• 1860 1
• Chapter 1 - Peace or a Sword? 3
• Chapter 2 - The Battlefield of Politics 21
• 1861 37
• Chapter 3 - Clay Wingate's War 39
• Chapter 4 - There Is No North 62
• Chapter 5 - It Was a Panic, All at Once 87
• Chapter 6 - The Martial Image 111
• Chapter 7 - Grass Fires 137
• Chapter 8 - The Many Faces of War 160
• 1862 179
• Chapter 9 - All Quiet on the Potomac 181
• Chapter 10 - Surprises, Thick and Fast 209

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• 1860 1
• Chapter 1 - Peace or a Sword? 3
• Chapter 2 - The Battlefield of Politics 21
• 1861 37
• Chapter 3 - Clay Wingate's War 39
• Chapter 4 - There Is No North 62
• Chapter 5 - It Was a Panic, All at Once 87
• Chapter 6 - The Martial Image 111
• Chapter 7 - Grass Fires 137
• Chapter 8 - The Many Faces of War 160
• 1862 179
• Chapter 9 - All Quiet on the Potomac 181
• Chapter 10 - Surprises, Thick and Fast 209
• Chapter 11 - Anything Goes! 237
• Chapter 12 - Up the Peninsula 261
• Chapter 13 - The Emergence of Lee 295
• Chapter 14 - Two Thousand Miles of War 325
• Chapter 15 - The War's Bloodiest Day 352
• Chapter 16 - The War and the Negro 377
• Chapter 17 - Grant Comes On 403
• Chapter 18 - A Grim Winter 422
• 1863 455
• Chapter 19 - War on the Water 457
• Chapter 20 - Over the River and under the Trees 486
• Chapter 21 - The Home Front. 515
• Chapter 22 - The Disloyal Opposition 541