Contents or Abstract: '; “...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. ...”
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