โ Scribed by Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
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704 pages ; 22 cm;Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1967, ยฉ1939;The author's one-volume edition of his Pulitzer prize-winning biography--Cover;America whither? : Lincoln journeys to Washington -- Lincoln takes the oath as president -- Sumter and war challenge : call for troops -- Jefferson Davis : his government -- Turmoil : fear : hazards -- Bull Run : McClellan : Fremont : Trent affair -- The politics of war : corruption -- Donelson : Grant : Shiloh : Monitor and Merrimac : seven days : the draft -- Second Bull Run : bloody Antietam : chaos -- Involved slavery issue : preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -- McClellan's "slows" : election losses : Fredericksburg : '62 message -- Thunder over the cabinet : Murfreesboro -- Final Emancipation Proclamation, '63 -- "More horses than oats" : office-seekers -- Hooker : Chancellorsville : calamity -- Will Grant take Vicksburg? -- Deep shadows : Lincoln in early '63 -- The man in the White House -- Gettysburg : Vicksburg : deep tides, '63 -- Lincoln at storm center -- Chickamauga : elections won, '63 -- Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg -- Epic '63 draws to a close -- Grant given high command, '64 -- Will his party renominate Lincoln? -- Jay Cooke : cash for war : hard times and flush -- Chase thirsts to run for president -- Spring of '64 : blood and anger -- Grant's offensive, '64 : free press : Lincoln visits the army -- Lincoln-Johnson ticket of the National Union Party -- The pardoner -- Washington on the defensive : peace babblings -- "Darkest month of the war," August '64 -- The fierce fall campaign of '64 -- Lincoln's laughter : and his religion -- The man who had become the issue -- Election day, November 8, 1864 -- Lincoln names a chief justice -- The bitter year of '64 comes to a close -- "Forever free" : the Thirteenth Amendment -- Heavy smoke : dark smoke -- Second inaugural -- Endless executive routine -- Lincoln visits Grant's army : Grant breaks Lee's line -- Richmond falls : Appomattox -- "Not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart" -- Negotiations : ominous dream -- The calendar says Good Friday -- Blood on the moon -- Shock : the assassin : stricken people -- Tree is best measured when it's down -- Vast pageant : then great quiet;Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1967, โโญ1939
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