Lincoln's citadel : the Civil War in Washington, DC /

Describes the Civil War from Abraham Lincoln's point of view in Washington, D.C., chronicling how the president supported fugitive slaves and also personally comforted wounded troops during wartime.

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Main Author: Winkle, Kenneth J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
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245 1 0 |a Lincoln's citadel :  |b the Civil War in Washington, DC /  |c Kenneth J. Winkle. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 4 |c ©2013 
264 1 |a New York :  |b W.W. Norton & Company,  |c [2013] 
300 |a xvi, 486 pages, 16 pages of plates :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-463) and index. 
505 0 |a "Abolition house" -- "Getting the hang of the house": Congressman Abraham Lincoln -- "At war with Washington": the abolitionists -- "A western free state man": Lincoln and slavery -- "Is the center nothing?": Lincoln's middle ground -- "Cleaning the devil out of Washington" -- "A wide spread and powerful conspiracy": warnings and threats from Washington -- "The way we skulked into this city": claiming the presidency -- "This big White House": the Lincoln family -- "White and black, all mixed up together": the African American community -- "A swift and terrible retribution": striking the first blows -- "Order out of confusion": preparing for war -- "I was slow to adopt the strong measures": loyalty and disloyalty -- "If I were only a boy I'd march off tomorrow": the tide of sick and wounded -- "An unknown something called freedom" -- "Tinkering experiments": toward emancipation -- "Freedom triumphant in war and peace": emancipation in Washington -- "We must use what tools we have": toward total war -- "On the soil where they were born": the former slaves -- "The step which, at once, shortens the war": the Emancipation Proclamation -- "Defend what is our own": the limits of freedom -- "Never forget what they did here": honoring the fallen -- "Worth more than a victory in the field": the end in sight -- Epilogue: "The country was ready to say amen." 
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