CONTENTS


I. EMANCIPATION AND POLITICS
II. THE SECOND ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA
III. THE THIRD AND CLOSING ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA
IV. THE AUTUMN ELECTIONS OF 1862, AND THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION
V. BATTLES AND SIEGES: DECEMBER, 1862-DECEMBER, 1863
VI. SUNDRIES
VII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE
VIII. RECONSTRUCTION
IX. RENOMINATION
X. MILITARY SUCCESSES, AND THE REËLECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
XI. THE END COMES INTO SIGHT: THE SECOND INAUGURATION
XII. EMANCIPATION COMPLETED
XIII. THE FALL OF RICHMOND, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

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