The Civil War : the second year told by those who lived it
(2012)

Nonfiction

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973.7/CIVIL

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PUBLISHED
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group, [2012]
©2012
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xxvii, 873 pages : color maps ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781598531442 :, 1598531441
LANGUAGE
English
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Frederick Douglass: What shall be done with the slaves if emancipated?, January 1862 -- John Boston to Elizabeth Boston, January 12, 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, January 6, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell and Henry W. Halleck, January 13, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: President's General War Order No. I, January 27, 1862; President's Special War Order No. I, January 31, 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, February 3, 1862 -- Julia Ward Howe: The Battle hymn of the republic, February 1862; from Reminiscences, 1819-1899 -- The New York Times: An important arrest, February 11, 1862; The Ball's Bluff disaster---Gen. McClellan and Gen. Stone, April 12, 1863 -- Lew Wallace: from An autobiography -- John Kennerly Farris to Mary Farris, October 31, 1862 -- Henry Walke: The western flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis -- Braxton Bragg to Judah P. Benjamin, February 15, 1862 -- John B. Jones: Diary, February 8-28, 1862 -- Jefferson Davis: Message to the Confederate Congress, February 25, 1862 -- George E. Stephens to the Weekly Anglo-African, March 2, 1862 -- Orpheus C. Kerr: from The Orpheus C. Kerr papers -- Dabney H. Maury: Recollections of the Elkhorn campaign -- Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress on compensated emancipation, March 6, 1862; Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862 -- Catesby ap Roger Jones: from "Services of the 'Virginia' (Merrimac)" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: from "Chiefly about war-matters" -- George B. McClellan to the Army of the Potomac, March 14, 1862, and to Samuel L. M. Barlow, March 16, 1862

Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it

Charles Francis Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., April 4, 1862 -- Emily Dickinson to Louise and Frances Norcross, late March 1862 -- Frederick Douglass: The war and how to end it, March 25, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Commanding Officer, Advance Forces, April 6, 1862; to Julia Dent Grant, April 8, 1862; to Nathaniel H. McLean, April 9, 1862; to Jesse Root Grant, April 26, 1862; and to Elihu B. Washburne, May 14, 1862 -- William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 11, 1862 -- George W. Dawson to Laura Amanda Dawson, April 26, 1862 -- Herman Melville: Shiloh, April 1862 -- Confederate conscription acts, April 16 and 21, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress, April 16, 1862 -- John Russell Bartlett: the "Brooklyn" at the passage of forts -- George Hamilton Perkins to Susan G. Perkins, April 27, 1862 -- Charles S. Wainwright: Diary, May 5, 1862 -- John B. Jones: Diary, May 14-19, 1862 -- Garland H. White to Edwin M. Stanton, May 7, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation revoking General Hunter's emancipation order, May 19, 1862 -- Richard Taylor: from Destruction and reconstruction -- Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, May 26, 1862 -- Thoma O. Moore: To the people of Louisiana, May 24, 1862 -- Lord Palmerston to Charles Francis Adams, June 11, 1862; Benjamin Moran: Journal, June 25, 1862 -- Henry Ropes to William Ropes, June 3-4, 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 5, 1862 -- David Hunter to Edwin M. Stanton, June 23, 1862 -- Kate Stone: Journal, June 29-July 5, 1862 -- Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy -- Charles A. Page: from Letters of a war correspondent -- George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 28, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, June 28, 1862

Charles B. Haydon: Journal, June 25-July 1, 1862 -- Asa D. Smith: Narrative of the Seven Days' battles -- Judith W. McGuire: Diary, June 27-30, 1862 -- Sallie Brock: from Richmond during the war -- Sara Agnes Pryor: from Reminiscences of peace and war -- Whitelaw Reid: General Hunter's negro soldiers, July 6, 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862 -- Thomas H. Dudley and J. Price Edwards: an exchange, July 9, 10, and 16, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: appeal to border state representatives for compensated emancipation, July 12, 1862 -- Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862 -- John Pope: Address to the Army of Virginia, July 14, 1862 -- John Pope: General Orders Nos. 5, 7, 11, July 18, 20, and 23, 1862 - Fitz John Porter to Joseph C. G. Kennedy, July 17, 1862 -- August Belmont to Thurlow Weed, July 20, 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, July 22, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, July 22, 1862 -- Francis B. Carpenter: from Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862 -- Henry W. Halleck to George B. McClellan, August 6, 1862 -- Confederate War Department: General Orders No. 60, August 21,1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Address on colonization, August 14, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 -- William T. Sherman to Thomas Hunton, August 24, 1862 -- John Lothrop Motley to William H. Seward, August 26, 1862 -- Harriet Jacobs to William Lloyd Garrison, September 5, 1862

Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy -- Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Charles Francis Adams, August 27, 1862 -- John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne, September 6, 1862 -- John Pope to Henry W. Halleck, September 1, 1962 -- Clara Barton to John Shaver, September 4, 1862 -- Gideon Welles: Diary, August 31-September 1, 1862 -- John Hay: Diary, September 1, 1862 -- Edward Bates: Remonstrance and notes on Cabinet meeting, September 2, 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, September 2, 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 2, 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 3, 1862 -- George Templeton Strong: Diary, September 3-4, 1862 -- William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Freeman Lusk, September 6, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Meditation on the divine will, c. early September 1862 -- Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell: An exchange, September 14, 17, and 23, 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 8, 1862 -- Lewis H. Steiner: Diary, September 5-6, 1862 -- James Richmond Boulware: Diary, September 4-14, 1862 -- Alpheus S. Williams to George B. McClellan, September 13, 1862; Robert E. Lee: Special Orders No. 191, September 9, 1862 -- George W. Smalley: Narrative of Antietam, September 17, 1862 -- Rufus R. Dawes: from Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers -- Alpheus S. Williams to Irene and Mary Williams, September 22, 1862 -- David L. Thompson: With Burnside at Antietam -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, September 20, 1862 -- Clifton Johnson: from Battleground adventures -- Mary Bedinger Mitchell: A woman's recollections of Antietam

George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 20, 1862 -- Ephraim Anderson: from Memoirs: historical and personal -- Gideon Welles: Diary, September 22, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862; Proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus, September 24, 1862 -- L. A. Whitely to James Gordon Bennett, September 24,1862 -- George B. McClellan to William H. Aspinwall, September 26, 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Record of dismissal of John J. Key, September 26-27, 1862 -- Fitz John Porter to Manton Marble, September 30, 1862 -- Braxton Bragg: To the people of the Northwest, September 26, 1862 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The President's proclamation, September, 1862 -- Frederick Douglass: Emancipation proclaimed, October 1862 -- Debate in the Confederate Senate on retaliation for the Emancipation Proclamation, September 29 and October 1, 1862 -- The Times of London: Editorial on the Emancipation Proclamation, October 7, 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, October 7, 1862 -- Oscar L. Jackson: from The Colonel's diary -- Charles B. Labruzan: Journal, October 4, 1862 -- J. Montgomery Wright: Notes of a staff-officer at Perryville -- Sam R. Watkins: from "Co. Aytch,"Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment -- Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862 -- Lord Palmerston to Lord Russell, October 2 and 22, 1862 -- Charles Sumner to John Bright, October 28, 1862 -- Francis Preston Blair to Montgomery Blair, November 7, 1862 -- George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, November 8, 1862 -- Orville H. Browning: Diary, November 29, 1862

Abraham Lincoln: Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862 -- Edward Porter Alexander: from Fighting for the Confederacy -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, December 15 and 17, 1862 -- Henry Livermore Abbott to Josiah Gardner Abbott, December 14, 1862, and to George B. Perry, December 17, 1862 -- Clifton Johnson: from Battleground adventures -- Walt Whitman: from Specimen days -- Louisa May Alcott: from Hospital sketches -- Orville H. Browning: Diary, December 18, 1862 -- Gideon Welles: Diary, December 19-20, 1862 -- Harper's Weekly: The reverse at Fredericksburg, December 27, 1862 -- George Templeton Strong: Diary, December 27, 1862 -- Fitz John Porter to Samuel L. M. Barlow, December 29, 1862 -- Cyrus F. Boyd: Diary, December 22-25, 1862 -- Jefferson Davis: Address to the Mississippi Legislature, December 26, 1862 -- William T. Sherman to John Sherman, January 6, 1863 -- Samuel Sawyer, Pearl P. Ingalls, and Jacob G. Forman to Samuel R. Curtis, December 29, 1862 -- Ira S. Owens: from Greene County in the war -- Lot D. Young: from Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan Brigade -- Ambrose E. Burnside to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, January 1, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln: Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 -- Benjamin Rush Plumly to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863

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