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On shattered ground : a Civil War mosaic, 1861-1865 /

This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended.

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Contributors: Panetta, Roger G., 1939- (Editor), Panetta, Eileen. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Signet Classics, ©2012.
Subjects and Genres:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
1861-1865
Politics and government
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1861-1865.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1861
  • South Carolina ordinance of secession
  • The Crittenden compromise
  • First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
  • The debate over Fort Sumter / Welles
  • From A diary form Dixie / Chesnut
  • From Within Fort Sumter
  • Lincoln's call for troops
  • The anaconda plan
  • "The Battle of Manassas" / Clarke
  • Eyewitness at First Manassus / Russell
  • A final letter / Ballou
  • The United States Sanitary Commission / Livermore
  • 1862
  • "The death of Willie Lincoln" / Keckley
  • The Monitor and the Merrimac / Stiles
  • "Tardy George" / Boker
  • The Battle of Shiloh / Grant
  • "What I saw of Shiloh" / Bierce
  • Shiloh songs
  • "Shiloh: a requiem" / Melville
  • "The private history of a campaign that failed" / Twain
  • "How men feel in battle" / Byers
  • Contrabands of war
  • From Hospital sketches / Alcott
  • Whitman and the wounded
  • 1863
  • The emancipation proclamation
  • On the Emancipation proclamation / Frederick Douglass
  • New York City draft riots
  • "At Gettysburg" / Alleman
  • Lee's letter of resignation
  • The death of Stonewall Jackson
  • The siege of Vicksburg / Grant
  • "My cave life in Vicksburg" / Loughborough
  • From The diary of Kate Stone
  • Richmond bread riots
  • The Gettysburg address
  • 1864
  • "A reminiscence of Robert E. Lee" / Imboden
  • "Buried alive" / Tyler
  • Black soldiers' petition for equal pay
  • The Battle of Mobile Bay
  • "In the Libby"
  • The campaign of 1864
  • The fall of Atlanta
  • Sherman's march to the sea
  • "Ethiopia saluting the colors" / Whitman
  • 1865
  • "The two Christmas evenings" / Child
  • The sack and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina / Simms
  • A slave's memory of the war / Freeman
  • The surrender at Appomattox / Grant
  • Anderson returns to Fort Sumter
  • The death of Abraham Lincoln / Welles
  • Abraham Lincoln's funeral
  • Lincoln's funeral cortege / Power
  • "The death of Abraham Lincoln" / Whitman.

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