The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Table of contents

• Title Page 3
• Preface 5
• Contents 7
• Part I - Disunion 35
• 1 - Disunion Movements 40
• 2 - The Road to Disunion 44
• 3 - Lincoln Campaigns Against Douglas 67
• 4 - John Brown: Kansas and Harper's Ferry 81
• 5 - The Republicans Nominate Lincoln 99
• 6 - Constitutional View of the War 119
• 7 - The Confederate States of America 138
• Part II - The Armies 147
• 8 - The Opening Scenes 151
• 9 - To Arms! Out of a Quiet Neighborhood 164
• 10 - A Texan in Search of a Fight John C. West 179
• 11 - The Fall of Vicksburg 186
• 12 - A Glimpse at the Secret Service 209
• 13 - Spiritual Welfare 216
• 14 - Mother Bickerdyke 222
• 15 - With Sherman 227
• 16 - A Confederate Goes Home 241
• 17 - The Last Confederate Cruiser 255
• Part III - Emancipation and the Negro 263
• 18 - Lincoln's Road to Emancipation 267
• 19 - The Governors and Emancipation 279
• 20 - Caring for the Freedmen 284
• 21 - Slaves and War Times 298
• Part IV - The Confederate Effort 305
• 22 - Facts and Opinions in North and South 309
• 23 - A Run Through the Southern States 313
• 24 - Resources of the North and South 324
• 25 - Supplies for the Confederacy 331
• 26 - The Work of the Ordnance Bureau 339
• Part V - Political Developments 349
• 27 - The Political Revolution 353
• 28 - A Copperhead View of Northern Consolidation 357
• 29 - Southern Morale: A Patriot's View 373
• 30 - Irreconcilably Hostile Systems 387
• 31 - The Test of Civilization 397
• Part VI - The Economic Impact 405
• 32 - Financial Resources of The North 409
• 33 - The Carnival of Fraud 414
• 34 - Inventive Genius 420
• 35 - The New National Mind 426
• Part VII - Reconstruction 437
• 36 - Northern Invasions 441
• 37 - Beckoning Fields of Cotton 446
• 38 - General Sherman Negotiates Peace 456
• 39 - Excluding the Rebel 464
• 40 - On the State of the Country Bill Arp 472
• 41 - A Changed Government 476
• 42 - Republican Corruption in the South 486
• 43 - The Disputed Election 502
• 44 - The Negro Character: A Southern review 509
• 45 - Forgotten 525

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