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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.
Subjects and Genres:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865
1861-1865
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Presidents > United States.
Leadership > History.
Washington (D.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Washington (D.C.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
Washington (D.C.) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Washington (D.C.)
Washington, DC
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865, Civil War.
United States > History > 1861-1865, Civil War.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • "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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